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How to safeguard your digital wallet

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DIGITAL wallets – the “wallet” on your smartphone – are a convenient way to transact because you don’t need to have your physical bank card with you. All you need is your phone. But criminals are resourceful, and not even digital wallets are safe. South Africans have incurred losses amounting to millions from the cards in

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