How to beat card fraudsters

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Card fraud is a boom industry, with recent research showing that one in three British consumers, about 14.6 million people, has been successfully targeted by plastic fraudsters in the past five years.

Meanwhile, despite industry initiatives such as chip and PIN, latest figures show that credit and debit card fraudsters stole more than £365 million of our money in 2010. What can you do to keep card fraud at bay?

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