How to protect you against credit fraud

Even in Italy the credit fraud are still rising and the forecast is not the most optimistic estimate given that it will continue to grow in coming years because they always come out new ones.

These frauds are most widely used credit in place through the removal or the cloning of credit card, or through the theft of identity, namely the theft of their personal data.

We explain some recommendations published by Adiconsum to defend this type of fraud:

- Never respond to emails that ask you to enter data of your credit card in a form or in a web page (phishing), or email you asking to verify their password to access the site vostroo banking online if not you asked you. E'consigliabile open your banking site and only by typing directly on your browser and never click through links on received email.

- Rip and shred to make all its unreadable data received of payment or any document from which you can indicate the details of your card or bank account (trashing).

- Always check the movements of their own credit card when shopping online, because the coordinates of payment may be intercepted by a hacker (sniffing).

- Do not ever call Emergency telephone numbers sent via sms to block the card, but only those officers who have received from your bank and that there are written on your credit card. Remember that the numbers hide sms via bogus call center used to steal the data of your card (vishing).

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