Practicing safe e-commerce
If you're headed to a brick-and-mortar store or a restaurant, don't leave a receipt on the table, and be sure to check your credit card bill to make sure the staff didn't heist your credit card number. Those are common-sense behaviors for real-world commerce, but similar security measures are in order when shopping online.
Despite the overwhelming success of e-commerce, there are still consumers out there too terrified to click their cart through a virtual checkout.
Are they just a silly-nilly group, nutty as a bunch of conspiracy theorists? Or are the rest of us just too naive to get it?
Neither, it turns out.
"There are as many ways to hack the physical store -- probably even more -- as there are to hack an online store," Marc Aniballi, Board Advisor at Filemobile.com, told the E-Commerce Times. "Life is risky -- get over it. But protect your interests and limit your impacts."
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