The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has outlined six measures that consumers must take to avoid fraud victims during their online shopping.
And it called on consumers, during an awareness bulletin issued by its computer emergency response team, to verify first that these sites are known and reliable, and that the comments on these sites are completely positive from different users.
The authority stressed the importance of not saving the user name and password on the purchase sites, in order to avoid penetration operations, as well as the importance of making sure to use a reliable and completely vulnerable Wi-Fi network.
The authority stressed the need for the method of accessing the shopping site to be 100% safe and secure, and for the user to request documents from the site to prove this, by taking advantage of the phrase “contact us” found in many of the purchasing sites.
The «Regulation of Communications» pointed to the importance of ensuring the presence of (https) before the purchases, explaining that the presence of this word in itself does not mean that the site is completely and absolutely safe, warning that it is possible that the other party is the hacker, and uses the process of transferring safe information .
The authority indicated that the word (https) is the process of transferring information from the user’s device to the site he wants to access.
The commission stressed the importance of not pressing the unknown links in general, especially those that promise prizes and entice fake rewards, calling to ignore them.