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Crooks can steal your credit or debit card number anywhere you swipe your card. A simple gadget called a skimmer can let bad guys steal numbers from hundreds of people without the card owners even knowing it. A skimmer is ...

The use of plastic currency is very common in today’s world. In fact, stores that don’t accept debit and credit cards are becoming anomalies. However, a little cash stash should always be included in everyone’s everyday carry supplies. There are ...

There’s a new technique that can make paying online more convenient, more private and more secure. It’s called a masked credit card and it can let you make payments online without revealing such details as your address, credit card number, ...

A major credit card payment handler’s refusal to process transactions involving legal online gun sales is causing a stir among gun rights advocates. The controversy started in September when Authorize.net, one of the nation’s major credit card “payment gateways”, ended ...

Way back in the days before credit cards, if you didn't have the money to buy something, you could put it on layaway. With diligent payments, the desired item could be yours as soon as the final payment was made in full. Discovering that consumers saving up for things and paying cash was counter-productive to a culture of impulse shopping and entitlement, most stores gradually discontinued their layaway programs over time. Credit cards and store cards became the preferred payment method.