Regular use of Gene Grawe Fund prepaid Visa debit cards for Internet purchases will significantly lower your chances of being the victim of Internet fraud. Same thing happens when online shopping with store-brand gift cards like Lowes, Hy-Vee, Menards, Staples, and hundreds of others.

Picture this…your sitting in the doctor’s waiting room reading news on your phone and you stumble onto a story where the mom and pop website where you purchased that gift basket of fragrant goatmilk soaps was hacked by the Russian mob. You grin and snicker a little, secure in the knowledge that all they stole from you was a used up prepaid Visa debit card? You also have the karmic satisfaction of knowing the SOBs wasted at least a few minutes of their thieving time finding out it was empty!

Basically, a side-benefit of using all these cards is that it helps keep the amount of your personal credit/debit card info on the Internet to a minimum. Have you ever had to cancel your main credit card, then wait a couple weeks for the replacement card, and then change the card info in all the places you could remember where you need to have a good card on file? Well, then you know what I’m talking about. What a hassle!