How to Check if a Website Is Legit Before You Enter Card Details
A calm, repeatable routine for checking a website before you type a card number, gift-card code or billing address — no special tools required.
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Website Safety
The heart of Check My Card. Learn how to inspect a web address, spot lookalike domains, understand what HTTPS does and does not prove, and reach the official website for your card without relying on luck.
Website Safety guides
How to Find the Official Website for Your Card or Gift Card
The official website for your card is usually printed right on it. Here is how to find it, confirm it and avoid the lookalikes that sit between you and the real thing.
Lookalike Domains Explained: How Fake Addresses Imitate Real Ones
Misspellings, extra words, swapped endings and look-alike characters: the techniques behind fake card and gift-card websites, and how to read an address correctly.
Why HTTPS Alone Does Not Prove a Website Is Safe
The padlock means your connection is encrypted. It does not tell you who you are talking to. Here is what HTTPS really guarantees, and what it doesn’t.