Cyber Monday is the day of biggest online shopping day. We spend maximum times of the day online to take advantage of the maximum saving, free shipping, reward points and 24-hour access to stores. Either we are engaged in shopping or are busy in checking out product reviews, catalogues and inventories, and conduct price comparison. Our consistent online activities, credit card use, reading reviews, bank transaction, sharing information on Facebook attract malicious Internet users to tap our unsuspecting online activities and increased online traffic. These hackers and Internet frauds devise clever plans to make money and lose personal as well as bank information with diverse types of Internet scams and phishing. Unfortunately, they those crooks are good at impersonating renowned online service that you use everyday such as Facebook, your bank, UPS and create e-mails (even they add privacy information in the bottom of the mail to make it look even more genuine). But, careful observation and awareness of how these scams look and can save you falling prey to the trap of online scammers. Thus, you can save your system, personal identity and your bank balance from getting robbed –
The e-mail address
Spammers and scamsters send you e-mails from apparently looking legitimate addresses that hardly raise alarms for Internet scams. However, you should know that if an address read ‘facebooksupport@aol.com’, the mail is not sent by the Facebook team. If the mail would come from official Facebook site, then the mail content would include address of the company and website address too. Also mails from addresses like ‘help-hr169356256@facebook.com’ the mail should be considered risky as it would contain virus attachments. Do not open attachments or the e-mail itself if the sender seem unfamiliar to you. At least, do not open till you install security software like antiphishing, antivirus, antimalware or anti-spyware software.
Online Credit Card Scan Service –
Websites like BillGuard comes handy for online shoppers by scanning your credit card bill and notifying you dubious charges. The site claims that it has helped customers save around $500 million of fake credit card charges.
Along with these precautions, you should also be careful about charging or using your credit card because many credit card company withhold payments while card company probe in the purchase. You should also be careful about return policy, refunds or restocking prices etc.
By Nidhi
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