During the last few months I've been tagging people who sell illegally obtained (stolen/hacked) gift cards. Until recently I had been doing so only to people who explicitly admit so or when there's no doubt about it. However most sellers won't just admit it, they say "don't worry, they're legit" and that's it. But it's clear selling cards for half the price smells like fraud. I've asked some of them to contact a very trusted member and prove to them (not to me) the cards are legal by presenting some evidence or explaining the method to them after getting their word they won't disclose anything except whether or not it's legal; of course I haven't got any results.

I strongly believe people who sell these illegal cards are hurting bitcoin by making it look like it works only/mainly for illegal purposes. Even if users here don't get scammed, someone else was before in order to make the whole business possible. There could be exceptions like people taking advantage of a promo code known only by a few, or similar; people who sell only one or two cards they got as a gift would be safe too. But those who sell an apparent endless supply of several kind of cards with a big discount and refuse to explain to anybody how they got them must be stopped.

Please let me know what you think. If most trusted users disagree with me or if I get valid arguments against it then I'll stop my campaign against them. Otherwise I'd ask other users -mainly DT members- to help.