How to spot a fake e-commerce page

fake e-commerce page

Every day many people work to do reliable and secure websites to offer your customers a pleasant and satisfactory shopping experience. However, there are still people who seek to commit fraud posing as a real online store when they only seek to obtain money or collect data from electronic cards. Here we show you how to distinguish if we are facing a real site or a fake e-commerce page.

Check the URL

If at the time they ask us for our card details, https: // does not appear at the beginning, it means that it is a website that does NOT have a SSL security protocol for which you should not under any reason enter your personal data

Try to get in touch

If they don't offer any method of solving doubts, or the communication is slow and they do not solve your doubts or they are not clear. Get away!

Check the payment methods

Serious and official businesses have gateways of certified payment and various verified and trusted online payment methods. If the only payment method is a similar bank deposit, don't risk losing your money.

Pay attention to the page image

Many scam pages don't care wording or spelling. They also use images that can be easily found on the internet with a search engine, or are of very poor quality.

If you don't see any of these signs but store prices they are excessively low beware. It may be that the page is real but they send you a poor quality imitation of the product, wasting your money.

Seek opinions about it

Finally, use your favorite search engine to find out what people think of that brand. If most of the comments you see are negative, look for an alternative to make your purchase.


Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *

*

*

  1. Responsible for the data: Miguel Ángel Gatón
  2. Purpose of the data: Control SPAM, comment management.
  3. Legitimation: Your consent
  4. Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
  5. Data storage: Database hosted by Occentus Networks (EU)
  6. Rights: At any time you can limit, recover and delete your information.