December 12, 2024, Press Release from the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Financial Institutions (DFI): Columbus, OH – As Ohioans search for the perfect gifts this holiday season, it is likely many individuals will choose to purchase gift cards to give to family and loved ones. According to the National Retail Federation’s 2024 Holiday Consumer Survey, approximately 44% of consumers expect to give a gift card as a present this season, making it the second most-popular category behind only clothing at 54%.

May 22, 2024, Press Release from the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: (COSHOCTON, Ohio) — A Chinese citizen linked to a major gift-card counterfeiting operation that targeted Coshocton-area consumers has been sentenced to four to six years in prison for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. Ming Xue, 32, of Hunan, in the Fujian Province, also faced 308 felony counts of counterfeiting, but those charges were combined with the single charge for which Xue was sentenced recently in Coshocton County Common Pleas Court.