Credit Card Scams
Almost everyone has a credit card these days, and we use them for everything. We get credit card offers in the post and online. With the rise in credit cards, there's been a massive rise in credit card scams. How do you keep your cards - and yourself - safe from criminals? We offer advice that will help to keep you, and your plastic, secure.
Below are our 5 articles in the 'credit card scams' category:
Although most new scams are simply variants on old ones, the Internet age and global communication has brought fresh ideas to crime. In 2005 the call-tag scam began to emerge again after a period ...
In these days of Internet and telephone shopping, we often buy goods on our credit cards without the merchant being able to see the card. That makes it a market open for fraud - in fact over £150 ...
It's something you read about in the news. A person goes to use a hole in the wall cashpoint, and a few days later discovers that his entire bank account has been cleaned out. How did it happen? It's ...
We think of cramming as a word associated with school and exams. But there's another type of cramming - credit card cramming - that's far more dangerous to your financial health. It was a huge ...
A very plausible phone scam involves purchases supposedly made on your credit card, although it’s simply intended to convince you to divulge the card’s security code – after which the real scam ...
