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Millions of people around the world are enjoying the convenience and fun of shopping on the internet.
Smart cybershoppers will continue to take sensible precautions, just as they have always done when making purchases over the telephone or even at shops.
To minimize any risk associated with using credit cards, here are some 'common sense' practices to keep in mind:
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The 'lock and key' mark, for example, indicates that a merchant uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a secure form of communication.
Some merchants ask you to create a personal account that requires a password.
This is a secure method as long as you devise passwords that are hard for others to guess (avoid numbers like your birth date, phone number or identity number), that are kept private, and that you change often.
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