The "Accept Credit Cards" Frauds
You
To Know
"We accept
credit cards" is a slogan that you might have come across
multiple times at various retail outlets, grocery stores and
other merchant outlets. This idea is commonly accompanied by a
few stickers (Visa/Master card etc). Credit cards have
transformed the way we do business and our lives to a great
extent.
Many years back there were just a few
numbers of shops that would accepts credit cards but now you
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credit cards. In fact, many stores (like those set up by a big
retail chain) doesn't only accepts credit cards but also sells
credit cards. These credit cards enables you for rebates when
you use them at any of the stores of that retail outlets.
With credit cards around, a lot of people
have stopped going about with any cash with them or just go
about with a very little amount of money with them. That
indicates that any shop that doesn't accept credit cards is
gradually losing customers. As a matter of fact, this is one
reason why lots of merchant accepts credit cards.
With the evolution of internet, credit card
industry too took a new turn and up came eCommerce and
eshops. Thus, those adverts boxes of "We accept credit
cards", moved on to the doors of internet shops. Then came
the time almost all online-shop would accepts credit cards
(directly or indirectly). Sincerely, this was the
foundation on which the complete internet-business
industry was based. This is convenience at its best.
Fraud is connected with almost all financial
instrument. Thus, there came fraudsters too, who also said that
"We accept credit cards". Many of these fraudsters use a lot of
methods to commit credit card related fraud. Many of them
pretends as online merchants who accepts credit cards as mode
of payment (the real motive being extraction of critical credit
card details. Others are people who work at merchant stores
that accepts credit cards.
These fraudsters either clone the credit
cards or just note important information from them (and proceed
to use that for internet-shopping). A lot of other fraudsters
lure innocent people into submitting credit card details in
chat rooms. Also, there are highly teched fraudsters who use
computer devices (called spyware) to spy on the buyers who use
their credit cards for online payments. The software get their
credit card informations and get it transmitted to the spy
using internet.
So a lot of merchants and service providers
do accept credit cards but don't forget that the fraudsters too
welcome credit cards. This is something you need to be careful
about.
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