<prompt> Human: So I gifted a walmart visa card more than a year ago.I dont have the receipt of the transaction but my Chase debit card has that transaction.When I logged into to the card to check myself, there is only 1.I tried to get the earlier statements from the actual funding, but the website has only 2 months of statements.I Visited the walmart and they said I need to have the receipt to pull up the transaction. They dont have records from over a year ago. This is a scam.Is there any hope of getting those funds back? Please advice. Thanks!TLDR: Bought a 750 visa giftcard for sis using my debit card, she opens it after more than a year. There are no funds in it. No staements to check if the card was actually funded by the store employee. Card never expires.Assistant: The money is gone. Some Walmart locations have a hard time with gift card fraud. What happens is a fraudster steals the necessary codes and then waits for the terminal to activate it during purchase. Once they figure that out they will drain the money and move on. Who is the issuer of this card? Its written on the back of the card. Call them and report fraud. Without the original receipt I dont think youll get very far because to them you might very well have happened to have found a gift card tossed away by someone. Human: It was issued by walmart and its a visa card. Thank you for the information. This must have happened. So why would anyone buy gift cards if this can happen?  <response>: Because their easier than an actual gift and more kosher than cash. And they usually work fine. Sorry this happened to you guys. 