Internet users are more likely to name credit cards as the safest payment method for their purchases, whether in-store or offline, than any other method. But the two channels had very different runners-up.
According to July 2016 polling from merchant payment services firm TSYS, more than two in five internet users who owned both a debit and a credit card said credit cards were the safest way to buy online, and 35% said they were also safest in brick-and-mortar stores.
