There's one born every minute

Gift card display, Staples, Vancouver, BC

Canada Revenue Agency warning, Gift Card Display, Staples, Vancouver, BC

I guess that this sign is a reaction to fraud, or attempted fraud, involving gift cards. The two certainties of life are death and taxes. No one really looks forward to a call from the "tax man". (And why is it always a man?)

But any relationship involving money will be subject to fraud.  Scammers will impersonate an agent from the Canada Revenue Agency and attempt to get people to pay them then amount that is supposedly owed to the government.

Western Union transfers were a common means of extracting money from the unsuspecting in the past. Evidently the methods of choice have expanded to include prepaid credit cards. But this notice was posted on a rack that was mainly gift cards. If someone purporting to be from the Canada Revenue Agency called and said that I needed to pay my tax bill with a gift card from Boston Pizza or Cactus Club Cafe I think that I might smell a rat. But I'm sure that some gullible individual would fall for that ploy. There really is a sucker born every minute.