Online shopping is wonderful — until a fake store takes your money and vanishes. Shop Online Safely gives you steady habits for the whole journey: a one-minute check that reveals whether an unfamiliar store is real, safe checkout routines (the padlock, guest checkout, typing addresses yourself), and payment methods ranked from safest to riskiest, with credit cards on top for their strong fraud protection.

You'll also learn what to do when an order goes wrong: the ladder from contacting the seller to marketplace protection to a credit-card chargeback, with US and Canadian reporting resources. The returns chapter and the twice-a-year tidy-up routine keep your saved cards and forgotten subscriptions under control.

Every chapter ends with a checklist, there's a "Do this today" action box, and the appendix condenses everything onto one page.