CC safety
Just received a new VISA card equipped with the 'touch reader' technology. Says we only wave the card over the reader for payment. That seems a bit dangerous to me - if the reader can read the wave...
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I'll keep going on my merry way using a CC for virtually any transaction, keep getting free airfare with the points, pay it off every month, get my 5% back on gas purchases. In close to 50 years using credit cards ONCE I got a call from the CC company with a potential fraud, which they caught.
I download financial transactions to my accounting SW every day so I'd catch any "bad" transactions anyway.
The contactless CC transaction is actually likely more "theft proof" than the insert into the machine and WAY safer than manual CC transactions.
And I make it a policy to use paypal for online transactions to avoid entering a CC number.
There are those that want to make a quick buck by convincing consumers that your CC, your car key fob, your phone is wide open to everyone and your going to end up in the poor house. They spread false and misleading information to get your $$$$.
I download financial transactions to my accounting SW every day so I'd catch any "bad" transactions anyway.
The contactless CC transaction is actually likely more "theft proof" than the insert into the machine and WAY safer than manual CC transactions.
And I make it a policy to use paypal for online transactions to avoid entering a CC number.
There are those that want to make a quick buck by convincing consumers that your CC, your car key fob, your phone is wide open to everyone and your going to end up in the poor house. They spread false and misleading information to get your $$$$.
