A friend of mine wants to send money home. He is planning on using Western Union, but I would like to offer to do the transaction free of charge by taking his local currency and using bitcoin to buy a Gyft.com Amazon gift card to give to the intended receiver of his funds. So if I buy the gift card and the gift card is sent to my email, will I be able to forward the email to the intended receiver for him to spend? Has anyone done this before?
It should work if the gift card is going to be emailed. It may not be entirely secure though as emails are often transmitted in plaintext. Most gift cards are a credit card style number and a pin.
If I took a screenshot of the card number and pin and sent it as an image file, would that reduce the risk?
i'm no security expert but i did hear the other day that image files are much less likely to be hacked. not sure why but maybe it's b/c most malware don't hunt for them?
although if hes using gyft he could just get the friend to set up gyft and through gyft send him the card it would be in his account within seconds then he could just use the card. 
