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Technology / Re: Is shopping online safe?
« on: 09/12/2011 12:09:10 »?
I want to buy something online, but I worry about the safty of my credit card
information. Who knows about some safe site for shopping online?
It's never going to be completely safe, but there are steps that you can take to make online shopping as secure as possible.
1) Only buy from the main retailers, these are the trustworthy ones like SPAMAZON and Play. They also have safer payment systems on their sites and more reliable customer service divisions.
2) Try using a prepaid card to buy items online, it comes with purchase protection like a credit card, and avoids you having to use your actual CC, so if anything does go wrong, at least the fraudsters haven't got all your CC details and therefore access to all your savings.
3) Go with your gut instinct, if you don't feel a site is safe then don't order from it, your gut is probably right.