Has anyone used AliExpress? I used a credit card for the purchase but they didn't ask for any kind of password. So is it safe? I am from India.

2021-12-09 22:56:10 view: Other

I don't usually say this but this is worth reading for your own safety :

i like aliexpress seriously but here i seriously wanna warn you , because u have just used your credit card ,

Now why i m saying to warn you is because everytime in india i or anyone make a transaction through debit or credit we get otp ( one time password ) to authorise that transaction but on aliexpress it doesn't ask any kind of otp for debit as well as credit card ,

Now the real thing when i got to know about aliexpress i loved that online place but as we know they don't provide cash/pay on delivery for anyone so i have to pay online for my order so i m using a kotak virtual bank/card so i wasn't thinking that much for the card to use becauae i don't deposit much amount in that bank , now i placed an order successfully no issue in that order but again after few days i had to order something so i used my brother same virtual kotak bank debit card and placed the order succesfully now here is the thing after some days some unusal activity started to happen with my brother card(bank ) someone was trying to use that card to pay for his order in “other country” it happens around 10–15 times , now as i have told earlier they were our low balance bank so we don't have that much amount in bank so whenever that unknown guy tried to pay our bank emailed and message d us regarding you don't have available balance to pay so at first we tend to ignore this considering it as a mistake but after that , we came to know there is definately a problem so we started investing and found that using that card on aliexpress cost us that unknown activity because for the payment of aliexpress order we had to open our international transaction form where the unknown guy started to use my brother card in other country many time ( i don't know if he made a clone or trying to pay online ) but we saved our asses because we knew and was warned about the risk of paying online at aliexpress that's why i and my brother used our virtual bank in which we don't deposit much amount ! so in end we have to block that debit card to stop that anonymous transaction from unknown person and tried to never pay again online on aliexpress or alibaba ,

Now an advice if any of you guys wanna pay at aliexpress just keep in mind tou use that card of bank un which you also always have low balance as we did , so by this way it will be safe for us to not to loose bigger amount just in case this incident happens again

Thanks