After Hurricane Wilma struck Ft. Lauderdale in 2005, the entire county went offline. No power, no computer. No computer, no Internet. You couldn’t buy gas because the electric pumps were out. You could only buy what groceries were still on the shelf if you had cash. Credit and debit cards were rendered useless.Things always go wrong at the worst possible time.
At the worst possible moment, hackers struck my PayPal account, overdrew my connected bank account and credit card, and left me penniless when I was most vulnerable.
As more and more crooks and cons become Internet savvy, identity theft is now the fastest growing crime in the U.S.
A lot of people trust the internet but a lot especially those who have fallen prey to identity theft have learned the hard way that it doesn’t pay to place your credit card number on the internet. Well, not just yet anyway. Credit cards are the convenient answer of upwardly mobile people who want to get their purchases done in the most comfortable, time saving way. And e-commerce is the idea that lets enterprising people set up their products and services over the World Wide Web.
