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About an hour ago, I received an email, purporting to be from iTWire's CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Matler, wanting ME to buy gift cards on his behalf as a "surprise for hardworking staff", but several massive red flags obviously make this the latest version of a scam I've heard of before. Details within, please DO NOT be scammed!

With five designs and a collectible sticker featuring five Apple logo illustrations, giving the gift of Apple via an official Apple Gift Card is now possible in Australia.

Kalember offers some insights into the 'Business Email Compromise' scourge currently facing many organisations.

Attackers who breached networks at India's second largest outsourcing company, Wipro, were part of a sophisticated campaign that used both commercial and open-source marketing tools to hit many organisations with phishing attacks. Most of these were firms that deal in gift cards.

More than $5 million was lost to scams in 2018 involving gift cards — a 38% increase compared to 2017 — with iTunes cards accounting for $3.1 million in losses, according to Scamwatch, the competition watchdog ACCC’s scam warning service.

PayPal has launched a "digital solution to plastic gift cards", not only saving a stacks of plastic, but presumably creating a nice little earner for itself, too.

The only legitimate organisation that ever accepts an iTunes gift card is Apple, and then only via its iDevices and Macs, so if you’re ever asked to provide one as payment – it’s a scam!

Apple waited until its "one-day shopping event" was here before announcing what was special about it.

Online discount retailer Kogan has launched its own gift cards and made them available at more than 2000 retail outlets nationally.

Samsung Note7 customers of  New Zealand telco Spark are receiving $100 gift cards wheh they return their Note7 phones to a Spark store.