Posted on Sunday, 31st January 2010 by admin
Credit cards are increasingly people use as the money instead to buy the product or service they need in everyday life, they stop carrying lots of money and just bring a little cash and credit cards to use them when shopping at the store, restaurant or place other, and means that outlets do not accept credit cards will lose potential customers, because it is not surprising that more and more outlets that accept credit cards as payment instruments, other than using the money, and also the more credit card fraud by people who want to take personal advantage of this situation.
Credit card fraud happens everywhere both in the real world or through the Internet, and they used every means in order to retrieve data from a credit card for personal purposes, and there are some new victims aware of their stolen credit card after the credit card bills come and see that they was not using for some bills, but there are also the victims who knew from the beginning so that they continue to be actively connect to credit card company immediately in order to switch off their credit card so the thieves cann’t use it.
Credit card fraud could be prevented so that thieves can not steal data from credit card, and some ways to protect your credit cards before or when you use a credit card are as follows:
1. Store your credit card in safe place, and do not carry anywhere you go if you do not use it, or if you have many credit cards, then you better take a 1-2 credit cards you use most often, while another credit card you keep a safe place.
2. Record credit card number and the date your credit card expired, and also record the number you can call any time of the credit card company that makes your credit card, and then save in the a safe place, it would be helpful if someday your credit card was stolen
3. If at the time of doing payments utilising your credit card find anything mistrustful such the cashier record your credit card number in private, or they are photographing your credit card by utilising a camera or cell phone camera in secret, and so forth, then you must act rapidly to non-switch credit card that you just usage so that credit card thieves can’t use your credit card with a report to the credit card companionship.
4. Each make payment via credit card, save the receipts for these payments and then compare it with the credit card bill comes every month, and if any suspicious transaction that you are not using, then quickly contact the credit card company to cancel the transaction and do credit card secured
5. Don’t ever give way your credit card information to others who you don’t recognise, either direct or indirect such by facsimile, phone, or online.
6. if you want to use credit cards to purchase products or services over the Internet before making a payment then you must make sure that the website is safe and see a security alert on the website e.g. a locked padlock sign at the bottom right credit card or a website that begins with https: / / etc.
The more careful you are using a credit card and you do more and more security on your credit card, the more secure you from credit card fraud
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