The Joe-Blow
>credit card thief probably has no idea how to intercept electronic mail but
>look at the characters that you hand your credit cards to in restaurants,
>gas stations, grocery stores, etc. that may have a pencil handy.

Yeah, giving CC info over the phone is really scary, but for some reason
accepted......

As Rob stated, I only use the
>encrypted sales sites for giving out credit card information, but again the
>insecure part is that there are people on the other end,

The little research I did on encrypted secure sites, is that the CC info
never reaches the site.....it is encrypted, then sent the CC company and the
unencrypted...The CC company then sends to the site that the CC is
approved...this may not be at all sites or even correct, maybe I was
mislead....I would be interested to hear anyone who has more info on this or
opposing information....

David Olds

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