I have a card through my credit union that I only use for online purposes. It
is a credit card, but I can add funds to it and it functions like a debit card.
No $ - No charge. It actually allows me to set the credit balance and when it
posts, there is automatic transfer from my account and the card resets at $0
credit.
If someone snarfs it, the likelihood of getting anything is minimalized.
Carl
Dec 10, 2010 04:42:01 PM, macartney.john@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I confess to being a complete Luddite when it comes to using my credit or
debit
card for 'Net purchases. The world and his brother assure me of secure servers
et al but there's one key issue as I see it. While Big Business can probably
afford to protect itself using any amount of security software and probably
employ teams of IT people on humongous salaries, this may make *them* safe from
unwanted depredations. I'm not in that position to throw money at my computer
in
protecting myself and if I very occasionally buy something on-line, it's done
with the very greatest reluctance.
There's much to be said for living in a hard cash environment but unfortunately
more and more companies don't seem to want to do business that way.
Jonmac
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