How to Keep a Debit Card Safe

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Tip 1 - 6 Easy Ways to Keep Your Debit Card Safe From Thieves | TIME.com

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Amy Danek | permalink

As if the Target data breach was bad enough, experts say it’s almost inevitable this kind of thing will happen again. "There's already a lot of breaches related to the Target breach that aren't being disclosed," Gartner analyst Avivah Litan told NPR, saying there’s roughly an 80 percent chance ...
Tags: paying with plastic, saving & spending,

For further reading: http://business.time.com/2014/01/21/6-easy-ways-to-keep-your-debit-card-safe-from-thieves/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How To Keep Your Debit Card Transactions Safe

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by homa kajian | permalink

Debit card use has become more popular than ever, but not every consumer knows what they need to do to make sure they keep their debit card safe.
Tags: debit card,credit card,transactions,protection,checking account,consumer fraud,credit cards – debit

For further reading: http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/how-to-keep-your-debit-card-transactions-safe.aspx ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Keep Your Debit Card Number (PIN) Safe

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Fernando Escobar | permalink

The bank tells you to be careful about tearing up the PIN that they send you with a new card. But did you know that there are more things that you can do to protect your number and ensure that nobody tries to use your account? Debit cards...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Your-Debit-Card-Number-(PIN)-Safe ^[3]

Tip 4 - A lesson from Target: Before you use that debit card again, here are 20 things you should know

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kevin Koppes | permalink

In the typical case of debit card fraud, consumers spend 28 hours making phone calls, dealing with their bank and filing police reports to get the problem resolved.

For further reading: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/before_you_use_that_debit_card.html ^[4]