A lot of people are worried about using their credit cards online and rightfully so. It is no secret that there are many crooks out there in cyber-land whose sole purpose is to cheat as many consumers as possible in order to make a profit. Many of these credit card scams are incredibly sophisticated and hard to detect. So what can the average consumer do to foil their plans? One easy solution is to use one time credit cards for your online purchases.
What is a one time credit card?
There are a couple of names that these one time credit cards go under. You may hear them called controlled payment cards or perhaps called virtual account credit cards. Regardless of what they are called what they do is protect the security of your regular credit cards.
In simple terms, these one time credit cards work by allowing you to make online purchases with a credit card that is linked to your regular credit card account but you do not have to use your actual credit card number (of the regular card) in order to make the purchase. In other words, the one time credit card can act as a buffer or filter between your regular credit card information and the information that you...