Nearly a half of Internet users buy goods in online stores, more than a third use services of online banks. Such large number of financial payments attracts criminals. Therefore it is necessary to be able to distinguish really operating shops from phishing sites (fakes) which purpose - theft of your payment data.
It is required to you
- The computer, the laptop, the tablet (smartphone) from which you go on-line; browser.
Instruction
1. Never use payment services and you do not enter personal accounts of Internet bank if you went on-line through the unprotected access point of Wi-fi. Malefactors can intercept the data transferred on the channel.
2. Before commission of purchase in shop, new to you, read comments on him on the Internet, look whether it has official pages on social networks.
3. You should not trust the shops placed on free hostings (the ucoz type and similar), the address of the website should be a type of ladycotton.ru, but not ladycotton.mb18port.ru. On the website whois-service.ru check when the domain was created and to what term it is paid.
4. If to you the letter allegedly from bank (with a request to come into an office and to change the password, to transfer the data on the website once again since they were lost as a result of some failure of the database or still something similar) came, then you never enter any data having followed the links from the letter. And it is better not to click these links at all - most likely they conduct on the counterfeit websites. For all explanations contact bank personally. And in general, do not click links in letters, messages in social networks, advertizing on the unknown websites.
5. Check the address of the browsed website (especially before began to make out purchase): the counterfeit websites completely copy appearance of originals, and in their address there can be typos (or in general senseless sets of letters). It is desirable to gather the addresses of the websites known to you manual.
6. It is better if the online store uses the protected connection: in the full address instead of http there is https and a lock. If to click a lock in an address bar of the browser, then it is possible to learn data on the certificate holder on the protected connection.
7. Use the separate card for online purchases and you do not hold on it many means.