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Redeeming a gift card should never, ever lead to an account ban. Even if this card wasn't bought in a legitimate chain, but on the sketchiest website ever. It's in the nature of a gift card that the one who redeems it, is not always the one who bought it.
The system rejecting the card is one thing, and perfectly valid. This is like the technological equivalent of an anaphylactic reaction.
in the scamming world, its never the same person, like whoever implemented that policy was smoking something good.
In the fraudster world you either sell the codes that you ripped off a card, or you have another person buy the card to give it to you. It's never the same person, the fact they are banning based off suspicious activity screams big head who doesn't understand the impact or reason for their changes outside "defrauded cards bad"