Electronic commerce does not stop growing both in store availability and in users who benefit from it. In addition, the product catalog and logistics are getting better and better and sometimes we can comfortably receive our purchases at home in a matter of hours.
Here we are not only referring to the purchases that we usually make in the Amazon giant, since there are many other really interesting proposals. In fact, we can affirm that a good part of the physical stores that open today work in parallel with their online store. All due to the enormous market penetration that this type of purchase has at the moment.
It is true that we can find platforms in the form of more or less large stores. We can also use alternative proposals such as auction pages or the second-hand market, all through the Internet. But despite its enormous growth, everything related to privacy and security is something that we must keep in mind.
Perhaps they are the two aspects that many fear the most, especially in new users in online purchases. We must bear in mind that the vast majority of Internet stores offer us certain security features to protect our purchases. But at the same time it is very important that we ourselves take a series of precautions in order to reduce the risks related to data and money theft.
Attackers are constantly lurking to see if we make any mistakes and they can get hold of our personal data when shopping online. This does not mean that we should be afraid of electronic commerce, quite the contrary, but it does mean that we should take precautions to minimize risks.
Protect your online purchases with these measures
This is precisely what we are going to show you below with some advice that you should follow and that INCIBE or the National Institute of Cybersecurity recommends. All this will considerably reduce the risks we run when handling money online through different channels such as our credit or debit cards.
Use secure payment methods if possible. Many of the stores offer us secure payment platforms, such as the best-known case with PayPal. This way we save entering our bank details in the online store, which significantly reduces the chances of these being leaked.
Nobody gives away anything. As in real life, on the Internet nobody is going to give you anything or offer you impossible discounts. In most cases when we find certain offers or even gifts for clicking on a link, it is a scam. Forget all this and even less enter your personal and bank details.
Protect your accounts in stores. These online shops that we use on most occasions require a personal account with its corresponding password. This must be as robust and complex as possible, and also whenever possible we should use 2-factor authentication.
Avoid public networks. Whenever we are going to make some kind of online purchase where we are going to use our personal and bank details, we should do it from a secure PC. This means that under no circumstances should we use public Wi-Fi networks or computers that other users and strangers will use.
Likewise, in the event that we have detected some type of fraud or have been deceived into buying over the Internet, the first thing we should do is notify the corresponding authorities.
