Safeguard Yourself From Fraud When Buying Online

Most people are comfortable enough to shop online, but be wary, there are identity theft and fraud at any corner you turn. Here are five easy tips for your online payment and shopping that can keep your online shopping experience a happy one.

Five Tips For Online Payment

1. Make sure you choose the best available account with your credit card company. A good credit card company that allows you to shop online will usually have encryption software to protect against identity theft, as well as auto log out once you've been inactive for a period of time online, usually about 10 minutes.

If you have any questions regarding payment and security, always talk to the company's representative directly, better to be safe than sorry.

2. If you have a standing instruction or recurring billing with a company's program, you'll most likely receive and invoice or email every month notifying you about the payment. Safeguard yourself by not signing in from the email link, and instead take the effort to go to the said company website and sign in from there.

Also watch out for emails from your credit card company, if they have asked you to verify certain account, make sure you call your credit card company to confirm the validation, this way you can keep yourself at arm's length from any bogus emails.

3. When you do sign in with a username and password to a company website, make sure you're always clearing your cache and history on your own computer. Finish what you've set out to do as quickly as possible, this is especially important if you're using a dial up modem.

Alongside with our advancing technology, it has made it possible for online identity theft to monitor your online activity. Therefore always take precaution and make it quick when doing online transaction, so to speak, to safeguard your own interest and money!

4. Whenever a transaction is successful, you'll always receive an email with the date stated, whether immediately or a couple of days later. Be sure that you've receive it and do call your credit card company if you do not! Also, check your online account to make sure the said payment was sent our or posted.

5. This is one of the most important tips you can use when shopping online, always change your password monthly, because this way frauds will have a hard time to keep up. Sometimes your credit provider will offer you a security check, which you'll have to answer every time you attempt to log on. Check with your credit companies to see if they offer such services.

The worst part about online payment is frauds and theft, therefore any precaution and safety steps you take to protect yourself can make a tremendous difference in buying online. It is worth it to have some of the best security software, and changing passwords works.

Only thing worst than not getting secured is not doing anything about it! Always take the extra preventive measure against theft and keep your hard earned money doing things you like instead!

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