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Gift cards may be an especially popular gift this holiday season, thanks to a global supply chain disaster that’s making it tough to get a hold of electronics and other items, but they’re also a go-to vehicle for scammers. There were about 35,000 fraud reports related to gift or reload cards in the first half of 2021, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). (A reload card is…