Save your credit card while shopping online

Many of us who own credit cards are, or should be, aware of the fact that online scams are becoming a notoriously popular phenomenon. There are many online scammers and hackers who expect you to make a mistake online, provide your information to an unsecured website, and subsequently lose money on your credit card. According to recent Master Card research, online income trends have risen sharply in cities like Dubai.

Buying online is very convenient and has many advantages. Therefore, we cannot simply advise you to stop shopping online using your credit cards, but there are some tips that I would like to give below for consumers to be more careful about using their credit cards online.

Use famous and safe sites

There are many famous websites, such as eBay, Amazon, etc., where you can go and shop safely with your credit cards. But make sure you are using the website directly and not following a link from another website. Because there are many fraudulent websites that can hack your information in this way.

For normal websites, to make sure there is a secure connection between your browser and that site, take a look at the URL: if it starts with [https://], you are on a secure page; if the url starts with http: //, you are not.

Also, look for a padlock somewhere in your Internet browser (Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.). If there is no lock on the browser somewhere, the page could be insecure. If the browser has a padlock, it means that the website is secure. NOTE: The lock is not displayed on the website page (as this means absolutely nothing), rather the lock you are looking for is somewhere in the browser. Here are two examples of what the lock might look like:

Use Alert Pay or PayPal for online purchases

These are two very famous websites for online shopping. You can register your credit cards on these sites, transfer funds there, and make purchases online. They are very secure websites and are like online bank accounts. In this way, there is a very secure third party involved in your transactions and your credit card information is not directly exposed to the providers.

Also, whenever you make purchases, make sure the site is protected, verified by VISA and / or MasterCard. You will see this written mostly at the bottom right of these websites.