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If you’re a prolific online shopper, you’re going to want to protect yourself. Crooks are prowling the internet to get you to make one false move online — then they attack! But it doesn’t have to be like that.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to safeguard your credit card from fraud.
Every time you swipe your credit card, that data is stored by several entities, including retailers, banks and merchants in between.
Even if you haven’t used your card in a while, you can still fall victim to a data breach or the crimes of an individual hacker.
f you happen to fall victim to fraud using a debit card, you’re out of your money. In contrast, if you get swindled and you used your credit card, you have a good change of recouping all of your cash.
Here are some guidelines from the FTC on how fraudulent charges are handled by card issuers:
You can report credit card fraud in a number of ways.
Crooks are always looking for new ways to rob you of your credit card numbers and the PINs associated with them. Stay safe and never give your credit card information to anyone over the phone that calls you for anything.
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