How To Be Safe Online From Online Fraud

How To Be Safe Online From Online Fraud – In this growing digital world, you never know when you will be compromised by online fraud, In this post I told about some important points to how to be safe online. Many times people get compromised because of their own

mistakes but we have to learn from them and apply them to our digital activity so in this post, we discuss how we can alert from every step we are made from online activity.

All over the world online shopping is now a very big advantage but it has many disadvantages, so how can know a good way to shop online without any fear of fraud let’s go to the point.

How To Be Safe In This Online World Without Any Fear

Many people think that they are safe but they are scammed so while online shopping check whether are you on the right website or not, This thing is very important for you when you want a purchase a product from social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and many other platforms are using by a scammer,

so why do they use these social media platform to target people, well Facebook or Instagram are the most popular sites and almost every person use them so this information is very good for a scammer, the next step is they publish an ad on the platform so they can reach many people by a short time.

The scammer creates a duplicate website that looks like the original website. When a visitor enters their website and wants to purchase anything by entering their card details on the site, the card details information is bypassed by the scammer and the scammer uses the visitor’s card details.

Be Alert On Online Shopping

Everyone does online shopping but many of them get scammed, below is a small point listed about how you can be safe while purchasing a product from online shopping.

Know The Right Website

Many times the scammer creates a duplicate website that looks like same as the original website so first check the website, check the URL off of the website official sites are always in HTTPS and SSL is enabled, and the green padlock icon you can see on the web address left side. Don’t enter a website with HTTP enabled, here google shows a notification on the URL that says this website is not fully secure.

Don’t Believe Fake Emails Or Fake Messages On Social Media Platforms

Many times you get fake messages from Facebook or Instagram please don’t believe them without verifying that are the right person or a fake person. They can offer you money but don’t believe them easily.

Try To Make a Purchase With A Virtual Card Or Credit Card

When you purchase any product online try to purchase with your credit card or if you do have not a credit card don’t worry many banks give you a virtual card, this is like a wallet you have to add money to your card and then you can purchase with it.

Don’t Install A Third-Party App

You can get many apps from your Play Store or app store so why are you using a third-party app directly from Google? Many apps steal your data so use apps that you use in everyday life and don’t use apk or moded applications available on Google. Check your application manager and see what the particular app granted permission. Permit a good way to the apps.

Conclusion

In this post, I talk about online scams and how to prevent these types of fraud so if you like the post then please share the post with your friends.

Sajal Manjhi

Tech-Enthusiast and Founder/Author of Techotn.com and also a passionate Pinterest Marketer at Sajalmanjhi.com. Follow me on X twitter.com/ManjhiSajal

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