How to be safe using your credit card online?

How to be safe on Pay-pal, Ebay, and all any other websites out there where you can buy things online using your credit card.

The fact of the matter is that if you're careful about where you shop and who you trust your credit card info with, shopping with your credit card online is just as safe as shopping with it in a brick and mortar store.

When you do use your credit card online, make sure that you only use it on secure sites. you can tell if a site is secure by looking at the URL address. If it starts with https:// instead of http://, the site is secure.

Even if your credit card information should fall into the wrong hands, most credit card companies have fraud protection policies which limit your liability to pay for fraudulent charges. If charges that you didnt authorize appear on your credit card statement, you can call your credit card company and dispute the charges.

I recommend IE 7.0 and above as it checks for Phishing. in the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Let me know if this helps!

I don't think there is any guaranteed way to be safe using a credit card online, because you just never know. the best way to do this is to check if the page is secure; if the URL address starts with https:// rather than http:// then it is safe. But just in case someone does find a way to get your credit card number remember that most credit card companies have fraud prtoection. or if you have unauthorized charges on your credit card statement call the company and dispute the charges.

these websites might help you out a bit:

https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/detai…
http://www.bsu.edu/security/article/0,13…

hope i helped :]

The first and most important part to remember is that your computer must be clean! make sure to use a decent security suite suck as Norton 2009 or Kaspersky. Also Pay-Pal does offer a credit card that is only used for online purchases. as with any credit cards they are protected for fraudulent activity.

It's also not a bad idea to scan your PC for malware before doing the transaction. I do. it will look for keyloggers, trojans, and other stuff that could compromise your information.

If you like, download, install, update, and run a quick scan.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (Free, don't register it)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Update and run a quick scan weekly or before any CC transactions.

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16 Responses to “How to be safe using your credit card online?”

  1. John says:

    This belongs to you, but we don’t want it in the wrong hands..

  2. Rebuhl says:

    >although that might be mostly because people just don't like Monsanto Hit the nail on the head. It seems a lot of people confuse "GMOs are bad" with "Corporations that push GMOs are bad" GMOs have their problems, just like organics, but anything in the wrong hands is bad.

  3. geranyl says:

    SEE WAT HAPPENS! WHEN YAH PHONE GETS IN THE WRONG HANDS!!!..... .. KILLED THE GAWD!!... Lol.. IM BACK THO

  4. cybersid says:

    I have this device at work. And the claims are true. Very dangerous in the wrong hands.

  5. cue_face_palm says:

    Waiting for the moment.. Testify what you are capable of.. It seems that it might fall in the wrong hands

  6. SJethwani says:

    Your iPhone is tracking you: If your phone or computer lands in the wrong hands, some of your private informatio...

  7. When smart tag falls into the wrong hands Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP)

  8. babyshanell2008 says:

    He just fell in the wrong hands at the end

  9. I dunno how you delete *your* system32, but she's far from dumb. She attacked it with some pretty heavy track erasers used in digital forensics. She thought I was hiding evidence of cheating on her, because i friended a few girls i knew on Facebook. I do some network security work on the side, so I have a few installed apps that are quite nasty in the wrong hands. Trust me, it would have worked without DF.

  10. UwuaMan says:

    Wanting an not getting creates emptiness, an that emptiness in the wrong hands, shall get hurt, the abuser/misuser doesnt care about value.

  11. RT Electricity is potentially very dangerous in the wrong hands

  12. EJ says:

    Knitting a cat isn’t that weird, for a writer. (KnitCat is quite cute and I want to read the story!) A sort of fantasy mailman in one of my stories got waylaid. Unwilling to let certain letters fall into the wrong hands, my character ate them.

  13. iamstyx says:

    Lol. You know what I see when I look at the pic of your gf. She is holding her cutlery in the wrong hands.

  14. TutuROXXu says:

    Collectively, I believe that fake eyelashes have fallen to the wrong hands. So thick that they are too heavy for your eyelids to lift them.

  15. Anonymous says:

    So Khmer has put the justice in the wrong hands.

  16. nicolesandler says:

    I memorised it. Messiahs don't write things down. It could get in the wrong hands.

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