In this case buy the gift card from some shady retailer with a one-time-use virtual card, and give this shady code to your friend. Or buy a physical card from aliexpress, the cheapest one with bad reviews.

> You do not like person x, send them some Apple gift cards... :o

99.999% chance they happily redeem them and go about their lives.

These stories, while frustrating, are clearly edge cases. Yes I know you can find more if you search social media, but I don’t think a lot of these HN commenters realize the volume of gift cards Apple sells and redeems without problem every day.

Maybe that hypothetical, bad person needs to find out what is triggering the account locking, first. Many small sums per gift card? A sum over a certain threshold? The point is, in reality it will not be up to pure chance.

However, I personally would not do that anyway.

  > You do not like person x, send them some Apple gift cards

Please start not liking me then.

I use VIM. I use Linux. I'm a Zionist. I don't watch football (either type) so I don't support your favourite team. I acknowledge that Trump did more to advance world peace than anybody else in decades. I'm a straight man. Surely there's something in there to hate me for!

> I'm a Zionist

I don't like you too.

Thank you. Awaiting the Apple gift cards.

I wrote "If you are trying to be a bad person [..]". I usually don't.

Depends,

> Zion serves as a living space for humans who have chosen to be disconnected from the Matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_(The_Matrix)