You are absolutely correct. It's crucial to exercise caution when providing your credit card details to any platform or service, particularly online. There are some very basic precautions that you need to take, such as checking the SSL and security information, make sure that you trust the payment platform and do not pass the data directly to the site. Even being very careful is easy to fall for scams.
Why not just avoid putting your credit card on website that have not proven to be reliable and go for the trusted and reliable ones, you know they always say free things might purge you meaning you could get scammed to trying to claim those free bonuses that are involved in that particular site you want to link your card. Its better to take precaution that actually getting a result that might destroy you.
Yes indeed, better to keep yourself away from those possible hack or scam that might take place, unless you are willing to take the risk but still the logic here is if you are done doing your research and you trust the platform, without doing it staying away should be the first line of your protection, not providing private details will save your butt in any possiblity of getting scam or getting hack by someone who are just watching you without you knowing, someone who are waiting for you to make a mistake and grab that opportunities.
If you are really that sensible towards your security then getting hacked nor really putting up yourself in risks or harm would be unlikely since you do really know on what you should gonna do.
We are the ones who are really making out those kind of errors on why we are experiencing these kind of stuffs on which it wouldnt really be supposed to be like this. Be wary and be realistic
on whatever things that you are dealing with and you cant really just make yourself that go easy on things and doesnt mind off about the risks specially if you have done it too much.
In regarding on the situation on using up your credit cards on getting some bonuses, then it isnt bad but as much as possible it would really be that preferred on making yourself get involved
on things anonymously rather than on exposing your details once you do make use of these kind of methods which i dont really that recommend or suggested at all.