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Excerpts: A radical approach to shopping online without risking the security of your banking or credit card details has been devised by researchers (...) explain how a disposable credit card number would protect consumers from fraud when shopping online. Today, e-commerce transactions are performed by sending the customer's credit card details over the Internet (...). (...) most e-commerce sites usually only require the customer's credit card details to validate the sale. There is no certification on the customer's side of the bargain. This means that anyone who steals your credit card information could use it to buy goods and services online fraudulently. (...)