The Risks: Fraudulent shopping sites, Holiday e-mail scams, and Malware
While the Internet can allow you access to millions of items and stores that you may want to shop for the holidays, it is important to remember that anyone can set up a Website that looks like a legitimate retail site. This time of year fraudsters know more credit card numbers are given out by online shoppers and to capture those numbers they are setting up legit-looking retail Website, accepting consumer's credit card payments for items they purchase -- and within a day or two the site is gone. In November and December there are also more instances of legitimate Web sites being hacked, with the results to consumers the same.
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