Happy Thanksgiving and have a safe Black Friday. I don't want to hear on the news about how people are shooting each other for the latest toy. It happens every year....
Much safer to shop online on Cyber Monday....or is it?
You will not get beat up or shot at online. But the thing that shoppers must be aware of is what sights they give their credit number to. Sites like Amazon, Ebay, Best Buy, etc are big names so they have paid for their servers to be secure. They have their reputation to protect after all. But that's a different story. The easiest thing fro anyone shopping online is they should look at the website address before they give their credit card online to anyone, whether it is a big name company's site or not. Just get into the habit of looking at the web address to keep yourself safe. The website address that asks for a customer's credit card information should always begin with HTTPS. If it begins with only HTTP, the site is not secure and should not be trusted with your credit card information. The HTTPS is more secure because the session that you have with the website is encrypted, or scrambled, so it is not as likely that prying eyes will see your private information.
So if you are shopping online during the holidays, do not forget to look at the web address when you are looking at the sale price of things. If you go to an unsecured site, then it may be that the price of your shopping list contents is irrelevant if someone gets a hold of your credit card information by shopping on unsecured sites.
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