The rise of e-commerce has brought with it an increase in cybercrime. We can all be victims of a case of Phishing, Smishing, Vishing or Skimming.
Today, we are going to dedicate this space to Skimming, which consists of cloning credit or debit cards in the online environment.
One of the most common frauds nowadays is the theft of our card details. With these details, criminals can make purchases, withdraw money from our account… And we may not be aware of the theft until we receive charges for services we have not purchased.
To avoid being victims of a crime of this nature, it is important that we only enter our card details on secure websites. These are easily identifiable because they begin with and have instagram data a padlock symbol, which indicates that browsing is secure and our data is safe.
Avoid Skimming, the cloning of your cards on the Internet
Never enter your card PIN, do not use public networks to make online purchases, carefully check the name of the website and use prepaid cards are other recommendations to avoid the cloning of our card data.
If you are a customer of the Caja Rural Group, request a Virtual Card at your branch . This card will be prepaid and 100% secure. In some banks you can apply for it online through ruralvía, from the 'Online application' section. In addition, once you have a virtual card, you can load money onto it easily and quickly, from your ruralvía session.