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Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers
(arstechnica.com)
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Long delay in replying here, but we did have limits in the number of gift cards combined value you could buy, not that they couldn’t keep buying them in different stores.
I think this was to curb people using stolen cards to buy them rather than to prevent people sending gift cards to scammers.