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An unfamiliar charge on your statement
Most unrecognised charges are not fraud. They are a legal entity you have never heard of, a subscription you forgot, or a fee attached to a purchase you do remember.
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Cards, wallets, bank transfers and crypto: how the money moves, who holds it on the way, and where the fees hide.
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Chargeback or refund
A refund and a chargeback end the same way — the money comes back — but they are different processes with different costs.
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E-wallet or prepaid voucher
Both put money online without giving a shop your card details, and there the similarity ends.
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How long e-wallet transfers take
Wallets are marketed as instant, and inside their own walls they are. The delay appears at the edges: when money enters the wallet from somewhere else…
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How long online withdrawals take
Money leaving an online account — a marketplace balance, a freelance platform, a wallet, a broker — moves in two separate stages.
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How pay by bank works
Pay by bank moves money straight from your account to the seller's, with your banking app doing the approving.
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The extra fees on internet bills
The price in the advertisement is the base price. The figure that leaves your account is the base price plus equipment, plus administration…
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Wallet, card or bank transfer
Paying online with a card, a wallet or a bank transfer looks like the same act with three buttons.
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When a payment service closes
Payment services close, merge and rebrand regularly, and the balance sitting in one is not a bank deposit.
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