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> You may be surprised to know that, when doing a "conventional" CC transaction, you are most certainly not giving any stranger information that would allow them to perform a transaction in your name on another merchant.

No. In best case, you’re giving your payment details to a PSP. A couple years ago NewEgg had a javascript skimmer on their checkout page that harvested all their customers payment details for months. Obviously anyone with access and intent could do the same for any payment page.

parent tmpfile 3 years ago

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