There are ways to avoid shopping scams

With shopping season right around the corner, its time for the scammers to come full force.

Whether it is text messaging, social media or E-mail, they’ll stop at nothing to get their wares and money away from you and on to your computer to steal stuff respecitvely.

Holiday shopping scams are here – 8 ways to stay safe is the article.

One of the items says:

When buying things online, check each website’s URL to ensure it’s legitimate and secure. A site you’re buying from should have HTTPS in the web address. If it doesn’t, don’t enter your information on that site.

While I’ll agree with this, you’ll want to also be reminded that the last quarter report indicated that 75 percent of sites are now secure, so I really question this. If that’s truly the case, than you’ll need to make sure that you’re on the right web site by making sure its spelled correctly.

This tip means, that you should make sure to the best of your knowledge that you’re on walmart.com not walm0rt.rest with some fancy complicated URL scheme that doesn’t make sense and leads to another web site.

There are really other good tips here, but that one I really question. Read the article for more.