17th February 2010, 8:48 PM
Yeah, you definitely have to be careful about who you give your credit card information to. Well-known websites like Paypal and Amazon are usually a safe bet, but even then, someone can hack into your account and obtain that information. There's also those annoying phishing scam emails I get from people pretending to be with Paypal or Amazon asking me to enter my credit card information to "verify." Funny how the login page URL doesn't begin with http://www.paypal.com or http://www.amazon.com. In cases like this, it's more a matter of common sense than any actual danger.