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The worth of iTunes gift cards fluctuates over time due to various social and economic factors, such as market demands or supply of the iTunes gift cards. Currently, a $100 iTunes gift card is ...

The scammers don’t need the physical card to redeem the value and instead get victims to read out the serial code on the back over the phone. iTunes owners Apple say that gift cards can only be ...

The iTunes gift card scam has been around since the mid-2000s when Apple introduced gift card for the iTunes store, which it later expanded to all its stores under its current official name of ...

They tell them they owe large amounts of tax. The householders are then told to go and buy digital vouchers or gift cards, redeemable on sites such as iTunes, and read out the code.

"iTunes gift cards make it really easy for these scammers to get money from their victims. They're basically just handing over the code over the telephone," Hobbs said.

Sources also tell us that existing retailers who sell iTunes gift cards (like Best Buy, Target and the like) usually keep around 13 percent of each gift-card dollar sold.

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A $200 gift card can be bought for as little as $2.60 and the buyer gets a gift voucher code from the seller via Taobao's integrated instant messaging platform.