E-wallet or Credit Card—Which is Safer?

Find out whether VTC Pay or a credit card is the best way to stay safe from fraud and prevent identity theft when making online purchases.

A reader named Trang Nguyen asks: "I make a lot of purchases online—but I worry about identity theft. Would using VTC Pay, instead of a credit card, limit the number of people who have access to my confidential information and keep me safer?"

Over 21 million people use VTC Pay to buy products and services online—but how does it compare to using a credit card?

If you’ve never used VTC Pay, it’s a service that allows you to pay online—using money in your VTC Pay account, your bank account, or with a credit card—anywhere a merchant displays a VTC Pay checkout button.

VTC Pay offers some nice benefits, but using it is no guarantee that you won’t become a victim of fraud. Because it’s so popular, thieves like hacking into VTC Pay accounts just as much as they like stealing credit card numbers.

However, it’s easy to beat the cyber criminals at their own game and stay safe if you follow these 7 tips:

How to Create and Manage Strong Passwords

Hide your information safe behind strong passwords that will keep even the most cunning hacker guessing!

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8 Tips for Buying Online Safely

The holidays are just around the corner, and with them come traditional headaches on what to buy for friends and family. Shops filled with endless queues, lack of time … These factors cause more and more people to decide to make their purchases online.

The convenience of being able to do that from home, at any time, together with the possibility to compare several prices from different sites make shopping online a very attractive method to get rid of the typical holiday stress. But do we know how to purchase online safely? E-wallet Payment Gateway VTC Pay gives you the top 8 Tips for Buying Online Safely