This is a huge problem," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes told On Your Side earlier this year. "They're literally taking the cards off the shelf. They're going and cloning the cards, and putting them back on the shelf, and once someone buys the card, at that moment, it gets drained of the money."
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