Ontario woman 'shocked' after unused $250 gift card only contained $1.50
CTV
An Ontario woman was 'shocked' to find out her unused $250 gift card was almost completely drained.
An Ontario woman was "shocked" to find out her unused $250 gift card was almost completely drained.
"My aunt gave me this gift card as a present and I was shocked to find out it was almost empty," Catherine Uchida, of Mississauga, told CTV News Toronto.
Uchida was given a $250 Joker Visa gift card, but she said when she went to buy a jacket with it, the cashier told her there was a problem.
"I decided to take a look at the gift card and the amount on the card, and it said I only had $1.50, even though I had never used it before," Uchida said.
Stranger still, the gift card had transactions on it that were made far from where she lived.
"It said I had made transactions in Hamilton and in Etobicoke, but I hadn't been to either location where the card was used," said Uchida.
Gift card scams have been around for years, but the holiday season tends to see an uptick as criminals know gift cards are a popular present.
