Are You Still Risking Your Credit Card Number Online?
Many of us have been shopping online for more than a decade now without a major loss due to insecure credit card transactions. But most of us also know someone who has been a vicitm of identity theft. So why then do we keep using our credit cards online? Because the convenience has outweighed the risk up to this point. However, with the economy in a slump and electronic credit card theft on the rise, it may be time to rethink that equation. Or, avoid the problem all together thanks to the wonderful folx over at Shop Shield.
With the Shop Shield Companion browser plugin you can shop online with zero worries that your credit card or banking information will be stolen by cyber thieves. How? Simple. Whenever you would normally make a Credit Card Payment you use the Shop Shield Companion Secure Payment Agent (SPA) instead. The SPA replaces your real payment and identity information with anonymous data that is useless to thieves and can’t be traced to you. Essentially, Shop Shield creates a virtual credit card on the fly that is only usable for that single transaction. That way there’s no actual account information to be stolen.
But Shop Shield does more than secure your account information (as if that weren’t enough). Through their Secure Site Registration they also allows you to create anonymous accounts at any shopping site so hackers and thieves can’t even get your personal information like names and passwords either. How does that sound?
Well if you think it sounds expensive you couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact if you sign up to pay for your online transactions through your checking account then there will be absolutely no charge for Shop Shield’s service. And I’m not just talking about the 60-day free trial. I’m saying it will be free forever!
So we’re talking 100% guaranteed secure online purchase transactions, anonymous accounts with online merchants so no one gets any of your personal information, all for absolutely no cost to you. If there’s a downside I sure haven’t found it yet.
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