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Additional Online Consumer Protection Tips

1. Be careful not to make purchases on websites you are unfamiliar with until you read the terms and saved the contact information.
Be sure to read and understand the website’s money-back guarantee, terms of use, disclaimers and/or privacy policy. These should be easy to locate usually on the bottom of the homepage.

2. Use good judgement. If a site seems suspicious spend more time researching the company until you feel comfortable doing business with them. Also, do not visit websites you find from junk email or spam. You should delete any emails you do not recognize. If you are unsure of something, contact the website by email or phone before you make a purchase or give out information. There are plenty of legitimate web-businesses offering what you are searching for. You can avoid scams simply by taking a little more effort and doing some more research.

3. Be sure you only put your credit card information on a secure protected page. On the page that requires you to type in your credit card, look at the address bar at the top of the browser. A regular web page begins with: "http://", whereas a secure page begins with: https://. Look for the "s" in http. These are encrypted pages and used for security of financial transactions online.

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