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<blockquote data-quote="MKC8" data-source="post: 325044" data-attributes="member: 8934"><p>Online shopping can be a bonus or a bust. Too many websites can/do store the payment information, even though you only shopped as a guest, and they "promised" they wouldn't. Even sites like Amazon can fall prey to hackers, or theft of data by staff. Our beloved federal government recently being among them. Social media sites are probably the most hacked.</p><p>It's a crap shoot these days. I've been exploited twice in the last 5 years, and it was hard to tell exactly when/where. Theories only.</p><p>One card was used to purchase a Dexcom diabetes monitor in BC, and another paid for plane tickets and merchandise in Abu Dabi, Qatar, and Australia. The 2nd one was the hardest to recover from. The card company didn't believe me, and their reinstatement process was onerous at best. It's the sites that require you input your CVV/CSC numbers that cause the downstream problems. If someone gets and uses them, the purchases look legit, and that's a hard one to explain.</p><p>It was a few years ago, but the first card was probably physically skimmed at a public parking lot, on a well know London Ontario University Medical Campus, to pay for parking there. My best guess on the second card abuse may have been physically skimmed somewhere in the USA, at a Pay At The Pump gas pump, or other POS machine. I usually look for both, signs of tampering, but I'm no expert on what gas pumps or parking meters that accept credit cards should normally look like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MKC8, post: 325044, member: 8934"] Online shopping can be a bonus or a bust. Too many websites can/do store the payment information, even though you only shopped as a guest, and they "promised" they wouldn't. Even sites like Amazon can fall prey to hackers, or theft of data by staff. Our beloved federal government recently being among them. Social media sites are probably the most hacked. It's a crap shoot these days. I've been exploited twice in the last 5 years, and it was hard to tell exactly when/where. Theories only. One card was used to purchase a Dexcom diabetes monitor in BC, and another paid for plane tickets and merchandise in Abu Dabi, Qatar, and Australia. The 2nd one was the hardest to recover from. The card company didn't believe me, and their reinstatement process was onerous at best. It's the sites that require you input your CVV/CSC numbers that cause the downstream problems. If someone gets and uses them, the purchases look legit, and that's a hard one to explain. It was a few years ago, but the first card was probably physically skimmed at a public parking lot, on a well know London Ontario University Medical Campus, to pay for parking there. My best guess on the second card abuse may have been physically skimmed somewhere in the USA, at a Pay At The Pump gas pump, or other POS machine. I usually look for both, signs of tampering, but I'm no expert on what gas pumps or parking meters that accept credit cards should normally look like. [/QUOTE]
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