Fake’s Tank

It’s really important to know which websites to trust when you make transactions online. It’s even more critical to know you can’t trust anybody fully.

You do have to let it go at some point though: just like one chooses to trust a local merchant won’t duplicate your credit card while scanning it, you have to expect websites to treat your private information respectfully.

Amazon just sent me an alert saying another user tried to make purchases with my credit card, which they had previously linked with my account over there. I didn’t expect them to actually make proactive checks like these and was pleasantly surprised.

I have yet to understand when my card information was harvested and if transactions were made on other websites, but at least Amazon’s suspition will be noticed by my credit card provider.