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>>Internet is probably the safest place to use your credit card...if it is a secure connection.
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>Most problems with security DON'T come during the transmission of data (a secure web-site). The biggest problem comes with hacking into a site, and viewing their stored data. That's an entirely different problem of security.

But the chances of that happening are pretty slim. I look at it this way. People think nothing of going into a restaurant, eating the meal, then handing their credit card to the waiter, who runs into the backroom to run the card through a verifone machine. Who know what else is happening to that card or who else has access to it. IMO, the chances of fraud are much higher here than on the web.