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The cases of Online Shopping Fraud are increasing day by day.
Scammers resort to phishing to cheat you.
However, you can easily avoid Online Shopping Fraud.
New Delhi. Nowadays the cases of Online Shopping Fraud are increasing. Although the police have a separate cybercrime cell to catch online thugs, but still the cases of online thugs are not taking the name of decreasing. The reason for this is that the thugs are more vicious than before. Nowadays thugs have become very vicious and they have upgraded themselves according to the need. Thugs try a new way of fraud every time. In such a situation, it is becoming very difficult to stop them.
It has also become very important for people to be aware to avoid fraud, because until you are not aware yourself, you will continue to be a victim of online fraud. Today is the era of Online Shopping. People like to buy online from electronics goods to furniture. In such a situation, when online shopping is happening on such a large scale, how can online thugs stay behind?
Due to the increase in online shopping, they have become happy. They are cheating people by online fraud. His eyes are on your money all the time. They are trying new ways to blow your money. However, your greed is the biggest weapon of the thugs. Thugs give you fat greed on some pretext or the other and if you get greedy then you get robbed. They loot you very easily by giving greed. Let us tell you that the most popular method of online fraud is phishing. Scammers only use phishing to rob you.
Phishing is the most popular method of fraud. In this, the swindler creates a fake website exactly like it by copying an original website and sends its link to you with such a message, reading which you cannot stop yourself from clicking on that link. In this type of message, when you are given a tremendous discount, deal or free offer. In such a situation, you click on the Spam Link as soon as you read the message and hand over all the information wanted by the thugs to them.
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If you use WhatsApp, you must have seen that many times thugs send you such links, in which they offer to book iPhone X for Re 1, buy Samsung Galaxy S10 for Rs 10. Such messages contain spam links. All these links are fake which are designed by thugs.
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Many times scammers also create fake websites for cheating, which is exactly like any online shopping site. From the website’s photos, description and ratings to fonts, they are made well like the original site so that you do not even suspect that it is a fake website.
How to avoid Online Shopping Fraud?
The easy way to avoid online shopping fraud is that if you come across an offer message in which any item is being claimed to be given cheaper, then avoid clicking on it. Apart from this, verify the message received on WhatsApp before following it as true.
Before clicking on any link, read it properly once. If any spelling mistake appears in it, then do not visit it, because it is Spam Link. Even if you visit by mistake, do not give any of your sensitive information.
Many times you are sent a Shorten URL along with the message, which is not known on seeing which website it is actually a link to. Therefore, before clicking on such links, check that which link is actually hidden behind that link.
