I heard from Macy’s and GiftCertificates.com that someone bought hundreds of dollars’ worth of gift certificates online using my credit card. Obviously, I cancelled the card immediately.

Lessons to draw from this?

1. I was impressed that the two establishments caught the anomalous behavior.

2. I never had a serious worry about being stuck for the cost of the stolen goods.

3. It’s not at all clear that my card number was stolen because of my own online use of it. It could have been any real world vendor who jotted down the number.

Overall: My confidence in the safety of online buying remains unshaken. I don’t like the rest of you stinking humans as much as I once did, but I’ll get over it.

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