I was in a retail store today, and these people were discussinghow easy it is for people to use stolen credit cards, and buy thosevisa gift cards without being traced after they purchase the giftcards.

I find this very hard to believe because

A) when you purchase a visa gift card they send the gift cardnumber to the server to the company that owns those gift cards tohave it activate it, and I am sure they log which store thathappened at, too.

B) I am sure they can monitor that gift card and it will leave apaper trail just like a credit card.

Am I wrong?