As Christmas approaches, searching for unique, discounted gifts can expose you to online scams. There are many fake sites that imitate real merchants. To avoid falling into their traps, here are eight essential tips before entering your bank card number.
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If you too are looking for the latest book printed in very few copies to make an original gift for Christmas or a common object, but you hope to pay much less. So, you potentially run the risk of coming across fake websites. They look exactly like real commercial sites. But they are the tempting window behind which scammers hide.
Here are eight things to do before giving up your credit card number.
The French spent nearly 147 billion euros on the internet in 2022 according to a study by the Federation of e-commerce and distance selling (FEVAD).
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