> If you accept the offer, just mail in your card and within a few days, cardpool.com will mail you a check. I wonder how they deal with gift cards bought with stolen credit cards? If the gift card gets cancelled by the retailer after Cardpool verifies it and sends the cheque, they're out the money. This could be an easy way to liquidate the balance on a card.
Also people steal items from places like Home Depot and then return the items for gift cards.
I met a guy who that is all he did. He would steal the items and had his girlfriend return them. Eventually he upped his tactics and started representing himself as a representative from a manufacturer and would do a "recall" of all of stock on a particular item (swiffer wet mop cleaning pads) and he got them all and returned them to other stores.