In an article by Rob Pegoraro in The Washington Post's "Fast Forward" magazine (May 1996),
spokesmen for MasterCard International and AT&T's Universal Card acknowledged that to date,
they knew of no cases of Internet credit card fraud. Statistically, it's much safer to use your credit
card on the Web than to use it in a restaurant or department store. When you order electronically
from Autonomy Publishing, only one person sees your credit card number. The credit card
information is not retained in any electronic format after the transaction has taken place.

Yes, theoretically, a skilled hacker could intercept your credit card number, but even then, your risk
would be minimal. Unless you pay your credit card bills without checking them for accuracy, you
would need only notify your credit card company that a fraudulent transaction had taken place and
they would remove the item and change your card number. But once again, your normal, everyday
use of the credit card in stores and restaurants is much more likely to result in your number falling
into the wrong hands than any electronic purchasing you do over the web.

Yes, someday a hacker will probably make news by siphoning off thousands of credit card numbers
from one of the major national catalog merchants. But this is really the merchant's headache, not
yours. The merchant, not the purchaser, bears the real cost of credit card fraud.

Autonomy Publishing hopes the above information has been helpful to you. If you are still
apprehensive about ordering electronically but wish to use your credit card rather than a check, you
have the option to call in the information to our toll-free number, send the information by mail, or fax
it in to us. We fulfill all orders on the day received. All software orders are sent by first class mail.