What to know before making a purchase on Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is a great way to save money when buying Christmas gifts for others (or yourself), but you might not realize the dangers of it when sitting in the comfort of your own home.

Cyber Monday has become a global phenomenon as spending this year is expected to surpass the sales of Black Friday. With so much money being exchanged — nearly $8 billion is expected to be spent — you need to be aware of people trying to scam you.

Jonathan Liebert, CEO of the Better Business Bureau said, “last year [internet sales] raked in about 6.8 or 6.59 billion dollars, which is about 16 percent increase over the year before, so this year it’ll probably be even bigger.”

Because of this, Liebert said there are a couple things you need to look out for.

“Number one, you’re going to make sure you are looking at the legitimate website, there is going to be a lot of look-alike websites trying to impersonate your favorite sites, make sure it’s got ‘https’ in the website. Number two, you’re going to want to make sure you aren’t clicking links that say ‘free vacation,’ ‘free gift card,’ free whatever; that’s, again, trying to get you to click on something so they can get your information, ” said Liebert.

Liebert added that in the end, you just have to be smart and pay attention to what you are doing.

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