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Never take your eye from the cashier when paying card!
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People are increasingly moving to the payment of all kinds of goods in shops using credit cards. However, their use is fraught with some pitfalls to be aware of Website feels obliged to warn the readers. Cashiers in stores have mastered a new type of fraud
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when we were in public places, it is usually the most beware of pickpockets. Many never even carry with them more money than they can spend at the grocery store. A large purchases always pay by credit card.
But criminals are also not stupid and are constantly finding new methods of fraud. So in the urban jungle is your only weapon - guard
Not long ago, the world has become increasingly popular new form of "skimming», from which has suffered thousands of holders of debit and credit cards <.. br>
It works like this. Cashier holds card on terminal to pay for two-fold: once to write off the money from you for your purchase, and the second - to get from the card personal information that can then be used in order to rob you <. br>
When you give your card to the cashier, you may not have noticed that the cashier has deceived you. Terminals for the payment card products look so harmless ...
Not all people every day check your account status. Therefore, to deceive you, having written off the money for the same item twice, can any cashier. The extra money is debited from your account, then he will take at the box office ...
Or here's another way: cashier just remembers the three-digit (usually) CVV number written inside of the card. Knowing it and your 16-digit card number, the cashier or his associates can do a lot of shopping with her on the internet!
Experts estimate that this fraud accounted for 80% of robberies related to bank cards. This is more than $ 1 billion a year in the United States alone and the UK
Here are three ways to protect yourself: Do not give the cashier the card in hand. If he insists, watch his hands. If for some reason he had your card in the terminal twice, remember this purchase. And then, at home, check your account status via online banking. Seal the digit code on the inner side of the card (where the magnetic line). In the map settings, specify that you can not make purchases online with it. For purchases on the internet using a separate card that will always be at home, and never - in the wallet. People, beware! Always keep a look on the cashier after being handed his card! And when inserting it into the machine, pay attention to whether there is in the slot for receiving the card no unusual devices!
via lifter.com.ua/post/2287
!
when we were in public places, it is usually the most beware of pickpockets. Many never even carry with them more money than they can spend at the grocery store. A large purchases always pay by credit card.
But criminals are also not stupid and are constantly finding new methods of fraud. So in the urban jungle is your only weapon - guard
Not long ago, the world has become increasingly popular new form of "skimming», from which has suffered thousands of holders of debit and credit cards <.. br>
It works like this. Cashier holds card on terminal to pay for two-fold: once to write off the money from you for your purchase, and the second - to get from the card personal information that can then be used in order to rob you <. br>
When you give your card to the cashier, you may not have noticed that the cashier has deceived you. Terminals for the payment card products look so harmless ...
Not all people every day check your account status. Therefore, to deceive you, having written off the money for the same item twice, can any cashier. The extra money is debited from your account, then he will take at the box office ...
Or here's another way: cashier just remembers the three-digit (usually) CVV number written inside of the card. Knowing it and your 16-digit card number, the cashier or his associates can do a lot of shopping with her on the internet!
Experts estimate that this fraud accounted for 80% of robberies related to bank cards. This is more than $ 1 billion a year in the United States alone and the UK
Here are three ways to protect yourself: Do not give the cashier the card in hand. If he insists, watch his hands. If for some reason he had your card in the terminal twice, remember this purchase. And then, at home, check your account status via online banking. Seal the digit code on the inner side of the card (where the magnetic line). In the map settings, specify that you can not make purchases online with it. For purchases on the internet using a separate card that will always be at home, and never - in the wallet. People, beware! Always keep a look on the cashier after being handed his card! And when inserting it into the machine, pay attention to whether there is in the slot for receiving the card no unusual devices!
via lifter.com.ua/post/2287
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