How To Be A Safe Internet Shopper
How can I be a safe Internet shopper?
There are certain things that happen on the Internet that can be dangerous; one of them is called phishing. A phish website, p-h-i-s-h, is a website that is mocked up to look like a normal company. Perhaps like Target or Ebay or even your bank website. But very frequently, the domain address in the address bar or in the status bar of your browser will show that this is not "Citibank.com" this is "Joesscamartist.com" or something else. So, one of your best tools is to pay attention to the domain name and where you're clicking and pointing too. Another thing is, no company will ask you via email, for your credit card information. They'll ask you on their website, for if you are purchasing something and it will generally say that their website is secured. Your web browser might also let you know that you're entering or exiting a secure site. Pay attention to that, this means that information is being encoded and encrypted to protect you. One of the things that's important to notice and pay attention to about shopping online, is that although you may shop at a particular website or a particular store front, you may get emails from that company, but be weary because there are what are called phishing emails out there. And a phishing email is an email that looks like it came from a particular company and ask you maybe for your credit card information or your password or your username or some information to theoretically identify you to that store. But the problem is that no professional company will send you an email that will ask you any insecure information like that. They'll get that insecure information from their website where they can lock it down, secure it, and encrypt it and keep you safe. So, don't give out your personal information via email. 9 times out of 10 it's a scam.
