There has been some mention here of credit card hacks. Someone ‘stealing’ your credit card number almost never occurs because the issuing bank has been hacked. It’s almost always someplace where you used the card to buy something where your card info was stolen. That would include you yourself responding to increasingly effective and official-looking e-mails asking you for personal financial information.
But it’s the issuing bank who has extensive security operations which almost always catches the fraudulent attempt to use your card, cancels the card, refunds any fraudulent charges, and issues a new card. That’s happened to me 3-4 times. It’s an irritant reassigning a new number to your AutoPay bills, but very safe financially.
I’d suggest that getting credit cards issued by the largest banks—Chase, Bank of America, etc. is the safest because they have the largest and most well-developed anti-fraud operations.
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Last edited by Villages Kahuna; 01-18-2023 at 08:09 AM.
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