Comments on: Safety Tips for Online Credit Card Use

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[...] Safety Tips for Online Credit Card Use [...]

By: Alejandro miguel

Alejandro miguel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:00:26 +0000

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By: i love money

i love money — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:57:18 +0000

revealing your ATM pin number would be the stupidest thing you could ever do regarding taking care of your money, and this case the credit card.

By: invadesoda

invadesoda — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:37:00 +0000

At least one company is offering “single-use” online credit card numbers associated with a real credit card number. Sorry, I forgot which company.

Also run antivirus and reputable antispyware programs regularly, because if your credit card number gets logged by a rogue program, it doesn’t really matter that the online transaction is secure.

Good post.

By: cj

cj — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:23:00 +0000

Isn’t there a chip that can be placed in newer credit cards that will help deter idenity theft.

By: credit repair

credit repair — Tue, 24 May 2005 15:35:00 +0000

This is a great post! Identity theft has become an epidemic and anything to educate the public about things like this is great.
Thanks

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:53:00 +0000

If I understand things correctly, the lock icon shows when you are ON a https (secure) page. The mechanism used to transmit your credit card number can still be insecure. For instance a form that sends your info to a script via http in the FORM ACTION attribute. If the form is not being SUBMITTED securely, it is irrelevant that the form page itself loaded via https. I’ve even seen forms that EMAIL the credit card number via a simple CGI script. That means that even if the form action IS https once it hits that email script you may be back to sending the credit card via plain text to the email recipient. I’ve seen this poor practice used even by “professional” site designers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:46:00 +0000

Just found your site while browsing and wanna say well done for presenting things clearly and providing really useful tips, have applied many of them thanx :o)

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