Consider that many victims might be new to the language, new to the country, and know very little about the culture except that they absolutely must immediately and carefully comply with all instructions from US immigration regardless of how arcane and bizarre.
And as far as making gift cards safer, shouldn’t that be the responsibility of the gift card providers, not to mention regulators tasked with consumer safety? Why is it that the scammers seem to ask for gift cards rather than, say, banking details? (I’m sure there’s also some banking scams, but I have a feeling there’s non-zero recourse for victims in those cases.)
If it truly is somehow impossible to make gift cards safe to use, then I’m convinced society could survive without them. But I doubt it’s impossible. I suspect gift providers deliberately go out of their way to make sure victims have no recourse.
And as far as making gift cards safer, shouldn’t that be the responsibility of the gift card providers, not to mention regulators tasked with consumer safety? Why is it that the scammers seem to ask for gift cards rather than, say, banking details? (I’m sure there’s also some banking scams, but I have a feeling there’s non-zero recourse for victims in those cases.)
If it truly is somehow impossible to make gift cards safe to use, then I’m convinced society could survive without them. But I doubt it’s impossible. I suspect gift providers deliberately go out of their way to make sure victims have no recourse.