Privacy (Spam) and Security (Payment) Issues when ordering on the internet or joining porn sites
Precautions necessary? Not urgent, but caution is better!
Many people just use their normal credit cards and their normal email addresses to order merchandise or memberships to sites on the internet. I myself did that frequently. And most of the time this works out all right and causes no problem. I have done it myself.
I am more worried about email spam then about credit card fraud. Normally you can get your money back in case of incorrect credit card charges. But once your email is on spammers’ email list, you can not get off the spammers’ list again.
This is a nice site to get an email just for a week or so! http://www.hidemyass.com/anonymous-email/
You can also open a hotmail, gmail, yahoo account just for ordering. If it gets spam, you close it down. Use funny long names asdferdsafasdfi@ …
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