We've all heard the Internet credit card horror stories. There is no doubt that some of them are true and well deserved. However, some of them are most certainly made out to be worse than they were and as such border on fear-mongering.
If you use a credit card on a secure page to pay for your online purchase, the chances of anyone ever getting your card number are "slim-to-none."
If, by some bizarre chance it ever does happen, most sites offer you a guarantee, like Amazon.com's "Safe Shopping Guarantee" which protects you while you shop their site, so you never have to be concerned about credit card safety. They guarantee that every transaction you make at Amazon.com will be 100% safe. Barnes & Noble have a similar policy. This means you pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to your card as a result of shopping at their web sites.
The safety rule for using your credit card or other means of payment on the Internet is very simple: If the order is not being placed from a secure page, don't buy from that seller.
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