Internet trade all the year round brings huge money to owners of online stores, however a threshold of such holidays as New year, Christmas, March 8, St. Valentine's Day and on February 23 – time, especially favorable to sales. In holiday days the buyers show the maximum activity. Alas, the same can be told also about the Internet swindlers eager for someone else's money. Simple rules of safe Internet shopping will help to secure themselves against fraud in network to you.
You do not follow the unfamiliar links
To you on e-mail letters can come with links from unfamiliar users. Better not to follow such links as the chance to get on a phishing site is very high. Such websites can copy completely other popular resources (except for the address to which the user can not pay attention). Having entered data of the card and other personal data at execution of the order, you do not receive the purchase, and here can not get money on a card.
The suspicious message can come with the link even from the friend or the relative. It is better to specify just in case at the one who sent you the link whether cracked it. Swindlers often hack accounts of users of social networks, and then from their person do mailings to their relatives and acquaintances.
Pay attention to protocols of safety
The online stores respecting themselves which are concerned about safety of the clients do not use open protocols. If the page address with goods necessary to you begins with the letters http (but not with https), it is better to buy nothing on this website. Payment of Internet purchases on pages with the open protocol of safety can lead to undesirable consequences.
Do not use open networks of Wi-fi upon purchases
Advantages of Wi-fi of networks with besparolny access before the closed networks are obvious. But purchase online through such network – a dangerous invention. Yes, in the conditions of the shortage of free time to use open networks for Internet purchases very conveniently, but any who will be able to be connected to network, that is anyone can get access to your personal data. Make purchases on the Internet at home on the PC better.
In due time update the software
Even the most expensive antivirus software will not help the user to protect the computer from hackers if it has outdated virus bases. And the worthy level of protection can achieve also by means of free programs. The main thing is to update the antiviral program in due time. The same concerns also any other programs which you use including browsers.
Get the second card
Never use the same bank card for purchases in supermarkets and on the Internet. It is better to make purchases in online stores by means of a separate virtual card and to fill up its account only if necessary and for strictly set sum. In that case, if swindlers also reach information on your card, they will be able to remove nothing from it, and you will have enough time for that to block it.
Helpful advice
Try to change periodically the password from accounts on the websites on which you specify the personal data and in general from any resources where you have accounts. So you minimize risk of cracking of your password. Also do not use identical logins and passwords for the different websites. The malefactor, having cracked one website, will not be too lazy to try the luck also on other resources.