Use a Dedicated E-Commerce Account for Extra Security

We all seem to be buying and selling more stuff than ever online. There’s EBay, reverse auctions, Amazon and a billion other ways to sell and buy stuff on the internet. Are you concerned about the security of your credit card or checking account information? What have you done to protect it?

If you regularly buy and sell online, there’s at least one thing you can do to protect yourself. I’m talking about something you can do for yourself, not something to look for an e-commerce merchant or credit card processing company to do for you. It’s all well and good for your favorite online store to be a CISP compliant service provider. But if something goes wrong at any step along the way with their credit card processing system, you’re still going to have to deal with it.

Instead of relying on a payment processing company to protect you, protect yourself by setting aside a low-limit credit card or minimal deposit checking account strictly for doing e-business. That way if the numbers are stolen, there’s much less to lose. It’s easier to track internet purchases and sales when they’re all on one account, too. Give yourself an extra measure of security by keeping the amount of funds at stake to a minimum.

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