My friend Ankit ordered a pair of branded running shoes last Friday from a website he saw on Facebook. The shoes were priced at four hundred rupees instead of six thousand.<\/p>\n
Two days later, no confirmation email arrived and his bank notified him that someone tried to charge twelve thousand rupees from an overseas merchant.<\/p>\n
He ran to my desk panicking: “What do I do now?” I told him to stop looking at the fake tracking page and take control of his bank card immediately.<\/p>\n
Think of it like dropping your physical wallet on a busy railway platform. You do not wait around to see if a thief posts your wallet back to you. You cancel your cards right away so nobody can go on a shopping spree with your money.<\/p>\n
Here are the three steps I had Ankit follow:<\/p>\n
First, open your banking app, open card settings, and tap the freeze button. That shuts off your card instantly.<\/p>\n
Second, call your bank customer care and tell them you entered your card numbers on a fraudulent portal. Ask them to permanently block that card and issue a fresh one with a new number and CVV.<\/p>\n
Third, turn off international transactions on your banking profile until you actually travel abroad.<\/p>\n
To stop yourself from ever opening a fake storefront, install the CYBX mobile app.<\/p>\n
CYBX was created by 63SATS to safeguard families against online fraud. CYBX’s link scanner checks websites before your screen opens them. If a site is a fake store clone, CYBX blocks it instantly, keeping your card numbers safe.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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