Tip 4 in an occasional series. Keep visiting regularly for more Online Shopping Safety Tips.

Keeping records is really, really easy. Write important facts in a notebook. Print out details of transactions, order confirmations, cancellations and everything else you can think of.

While your ownership of a good, auditable, paper trail is unlikely to prevent online fraud from striking, it does put you in a stronger position when you come to clean up the mess. A stitch in time saves nine, so the old proverb goes, and this is no exception: spend a few minutes gathering the necessary data now and the recovery process could be that much simpler.