Given the foreseeable increase in purchases for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, experts from the National Police have prepared a decalogue to avoid possible fraud that may occur in the coming days.
Social networks have sometimes become a source of entry for the dissemination of scams, cybercriminals can use them to offer eye-catching items that do not exist or to redirect to fraudulent pages.
Ten tips to keep your Black Friday from becoming a 'Black Day' for your bank accounts
1.- Beware of some promotions that arrive by email or social networks! These may include a link that redirects you to a fraudulent website where they try to steal your personal and financial information. Do not click on that link, and type the address of the electronic commerce in your browser yourself.
2.- Hook: prices. You are likely to find popular items that are real bargains. But remember that if something is too good to be true, it probably isn't. Scammers
usually create fake web pages that disappear after collecting money from their victims.
3.- Don't be a victim of “typosquatting” (a user ends up on a web page that is not the one they were looking for by typing the URL incorrectly). When you enter a page, verify that the name is spelled correctly in the URL.
4.- Pay attention to “QRishing” scammers are able to manipulate a QR code to download malicious software to infect your device and get hold of your most sensitive data by redirecting you to a fraudulent website.
5.- These days of so many shipments you are likely to receive an SMS or email from alleged parcel companies Don't click on the links! It could be phishing!
6.- Look at the design of the web page, if it contains poor quality images, poorly translated texts, or spelling mistakes, does not include CIF or fiscal address... it should set off all your alarms.
7.- May the discount be on the price and not on the quality. The same quality and rights must be maintained.
8.- The padlock that appears in the URL does not necessarily guarantee that it is a secure web page, cybercriminals are trained to create pages that appear to be completely secure.
9.- Make sure that the web page has secure payment gateways and contrasts the opinions of other users on websites intended for the evaluation of these electronic stores.
10.- If you have been the victim of fraud, change passwords, cancel your credit card immediately, talk to your bank and report it to a National Police station.
