Who doesn't like to do online shopping from home, it is also important to take some precautions while shopping online. As soon as the online sale starts, scammers also become active and empty your bank account on a small mistake of yours.

If you keep some important things in mind while shopping online during the festive season, then you can easily foil the plans of scammers.

Online Fraud: Avoid making these mistakes
Avoid fake sites: Scammers cleverly design a dummy site that will look exactly like the original site. After creating the site, they will lure people with huge discounts to cheat them, and then as soon as you get caught in the trap of scammers and make payment to buy goods, you will be scammed.

URL Verify: Check the URL of the site from which you are going to shop properly. For example, the name of the Amazon site is Amazon.in but scammers create a site with amazon.in or any similar name that looks like Amazon. Because the design of the site looks the same, people do not pay attention to the URL and fall prey to the scam.

Forwarded Link: When the sale starts, forwarded links of cheap and bumper discounted products start circulating on social media. One of your friends sees a product that is being sold at a very cheap price and forwards the same link. This way the link keeps getting forwarded and people trust the link sent by their close ones and do shopping and even empty their bank account. We are not saying that every link is fake but do verify before clicking the link.