Don’t let your credit card take a vacation without you—Top 4 safety tips for global travel | Mint

You can fund your overseas trip for personal/professional reasons, business or vacation with your credit card. Though credit cards offer a lot of benefits such as low forex mark-up fee, rewards and discounts on flights as well as hotel bookings for international travel, you have to be careful with your usage. There are several things … Read more

Merchant overcharged you? How to handle credit card disputes in India effectively | Mint

In today’s rapidly evolving digital age credit card transactions have now become commonplace in India. Still, instances of extremely high and incorrect charges or unauthorised transactions are not at all uncommon. That is why, clearly understanding the dispute resolution process is important for credit card users to safeguard and defend their financial interests. This particular … Read more

Hyderabad woman falls victim to ₹2.29 lakh credit card fraud—learn how to stay safe from rising scams in India | Mint

A 53-year-old Hyderabad woman lost ₹2.29 lakh recently to a credit card scam. This isolated incident is just a pointer to increasing credit card frauds in India and an alert to credit card users to stay careful. How did the scam unfold? The victim received a call from someone posing as the head of customer … Read more

Legal rights against credit card fraud: What every consumer should know | Mint

Credit card frauds are on the rise in India, and most of them are happening through internet transactions. Rapid digitalization of payment services is also a crucial factor facilitating: credit card scams, loss of funds and identity thefts through numerous fraudulent transactions. There are some legal rights of the Indian citizens to protect them from … Read more