How credit card hacks can be prevented?

India
August 16, 2007 5:03pm CST
hi friends,does anybody from you knows the ways to prevent credit card hacks??please share your knowledge with me..i got my card hacked this july while i was making a purchase on amazon.com..i purchased one of my course books for 700$ and after 20 days we got a letter from the bank with bill of 9050$..somehow we got to manage the loss via our insurance and through bank help by providing the necessary information and we had to pay only 200$ extra..we got our transactions checked and they were from some proxy site whose address we could not find..i have a very good antivirus installed on my laptop..but still how this happened when all the firewall and cheat check facility was there..and moreover amazon showed us Verisign secured transaction or something like that..i have even previously purchased books from there 4-5 times..but this never happened..can anybody tell me what other measures should be taken care of..cause you know at one time or the other we have to do online purchasing.....thanks
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sweetcakes
@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
17 Aug 07
The only thing i can think of is not to use them at all. hackers get smarter everyday.
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sweetcakes
@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
18 Sep 07
yes thats true and thank you for the best response!
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medstudents4
@medstudents4 (826)
• India
17 Aug 07
yes you are right..i'll never dare to use them again without having somebody expert besides me..but you know sweecakes sometimes they are required..we cann't help..specially when you have to buy from some other country..most of them do not accept checks..
medstudents4
@medstudents4 (826)
• India
17 Aug 07
yes you are right..i'll never dare to use them again without having somebody expert beside me..but you know sweecakes sometimes they are required..we cann't help..specially when you have to buy from some other country..most of them do not accept checks..
agnescav
@agnescav (566)
• United States
16 Aug 07
As soon as I leave my banking site or use my credit or debit card on line, I delete all cookies and files and clear the history. I don't know if this helps or not. I just do it.
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medstudents4
@medstudents4 (826)
• India
16 Aug 07
thank you for replying agnescav ..but i use my credit card on my personal computer only..should i delete cookies on my own computer also?
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agnescav
@agnescav (566)
• United States
17 Aug 07
i do. Come to think of it, could you have paid through paypal?
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medstudents4
@medstudents4 (826)
• India
17 Aug 07
no..i have never paid through paypal..i have opened my account just before joining mylot..is it safe to purchase through paypal..why so??