Saturday, July 10, 2010

Secured Tips for Online Shopping via Internet

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Shopping-internet world today grow rapidly, the Internet not only can be used to find information and downloads, but more than that now many people use the internet for online shopping facilities. Some of us certainly never tried to shop online via the Internet. Benefits can be gained from online shopping is easy in terms of choosing among categories of goods to be purchased, the price is not too far from those seen in the shops, diverse types of goods to which ones to choose confused, have a delivery service to The most important goal and we can easily shop with just sitting pretty in front of the computer.

But in addition to offering online shopping gains also are at risk because we know that Internet is a fertile land for deceptive practices, deceptive because the buyer and the seller does not meet directly. how we get around it in order not to be trapped inside due to shop online scams in Internet. Here are some tips:

1. Do advance research and observation of the site as the place we're going shopping. Check whether the seller is to include a contact who can be contacted e.g telephone, YM, address or have an account at social networking sites like facebook. If things like this do not exist or could not be reached then the site does not deserve to be the place to shop.
2. Do not easily give personal data such as identity card numbers, driver's license, ATM card or personal account to the seller. Normally, personal information is rarely used in the buying and selling online.
3. Find and read information about the policy of those sites, or better known as the License and Agreement. Do not let the site has a policy may provide personal information to other parties. Read also about the purchase and return goods policy as this will be useful when we receive the goods unsuitable or defective.
4. Check prices listed on the goods, we should be suspicious if the same item has a price significantly different from that in the store.
5. Do not use the same password when transacting online because it is very risky against password theft crimes.
6. Provide a computer with an updated antivirus especially if the antivirus has spyware protection, anti-phishing and firewall better.
7. Asking for and preserve evidence if the transaction online shopping usually via email.
8. Better make payments in online transactions if we have a paypal accont. Because the payment via paypal will be guaranteed securely than using a credit card.
9. If you do not have a paypal account and forced TODD credit card, check whether the URL of the site whether the mark or the secure padlock. Usually the URL of the site such as this will automatically direct wage from http to https when going to conduct a transaction.


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