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Re: heard about it
said by wifi4milez  :To this day when I purchase products online I still click on the "contact us" link so I can get the companies phone number and then I call the order in. You do know that that isn't going to prevent someone from hacking the companies databases and stealing your credit card, right? Read Jason Levine 's post below for why. I'll only add that many, if not most, companies call center employees are just entering an order for you over on the very same website you could of ordered on yourself, or they're using a frontend that does the exact same thing.
Back several years ago when purchasing thing over the web was just getting started; I remember reading an article where they were asking some expert (it was the head of the fraud department at visa if I remember correctly) if ordering over the web was safe; he replied that if the site was using proper encryption that it was actually safer because someone wanting to steal your card would have to work a lot harder to get your CC number than the employee you were giving the number to or the person with the scanner listening in if your calling in on a cordless.
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