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Online Shopping Safety Tips

November 29th, 2010 by flanews

Millions of Floridians will shop online this holiday season, and thousands of them will be ripped off. Online scammers are trying to steal your credit card information. The Florida Attorney General’s Office has tips for online shoppers. They say beware of pop ups. Never give out your social security number and try to use websites with https in the suffix. The ‘s’ stands for secure, but Attorney General spokeswoman Sandi Copes says even web addresses with https aren’t foolproof.

“Someone could have purchased that secure site, and sure your information is secure, but it could securely be going to a scam artist. So just be mindful of that. Shop with caution, do your research and be educated,” said Copes.

Copes says shoppers should use trusted sites and if a deal seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

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