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Skeptoid #554: How Your Credit Card Got Stolen

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Paranormal, Urban Legends, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Conspiracy Theories, History, Science, Skeptic

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Here are the most likely ways that your credit card got stolen, and how you can prevent it in the future.

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Nobody likes having to cancel their credit card and reissue it when fraud pops up, as it

0:08.7

inevitably does.

0:10.6

But how is it happening?

0:12.5

How are the bad guys getting your card data?

0:15.6

Well for every one real way to get it, there are about 10 pieces of misinformation about

0:20.5

ways that it almost certainly wasn't taken.

0:23.8

Today we're going to separate the fact from the fiction, and find out what the best practices

0:29.4

actually are.

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