How to Check your Trading Partners

With all the hacks of the press corps clamouring to ensure that you don't shop online as its too dangerous, and the IC3 partnership confirming that internet crime is on the increase, what are your options to reduce the dangers? However before you delete all your bookmarks and move to the wilderness, accordinging to the IC3 the main threats are from email and webpages, okay back in the van, no point going online as that covers mine and probably your entire internet experience!

So now we are too scared to go near the internet with any intention other than to read blogs, the solution has many elements, but some simple steps can make a massive difference.

Do not use Google to do your shopping, trust in your bookmarks, these represent your safe list, you know the sites and what they should look like. Secondly if there is an offer too good to miss, but its on a site that you have not visited before, then either Checksure or Better Business Bureau may provide information on the company. We have previously stopped transactions when the company name search failed to bring any results that matched the sites declared address.

There are plenty of other ways to enhance your security, but for now these will go some way to making your internet usage safer.