Gift Certificates, the easy target for crooks. Criminals are finding out that there is a new low risk prey in the world of document fraud. Gift Certificates are a novel way of giving a voucher to someone that can then be redeemed for a product of value. Here’s the problem, being as there isn’t direct money involved on the redeeming end, these vouchers are taken much to lightly by clerks and store personnel as not being an area of targeted counterfeiting. Awareness is one method of catching a criminal, but isn’t that a little after the fact? A Gift Certificate lacking security features is not only an easy target to counterfeit but also shows that the clerks will not have an adeqaute checking system. Owners need to focus on supplying a Gift Certificate that makes document fraud specialist look elsewhere for easier prey plus give their employees easy means of verifying an original gift certificate from a fake. A securely printed gift certificate is an easy way to eliminate loss through fraud.