How to Report Scam Website
Modern world belong to internet, people want to surf more and more for every purpose of life. Few weeks ago it was just a need, but with the start of dreadful COVID-19 (corona virus), internet has become the facility and also the sensation. In immense lockdown people only have internet to do their jobs, from household to office work, everything is being easily done on the internet. Everyone is surfing more and more on the internet, and cybercriminals also have become more active on the internet. The ratio of online scams and frauds are increasing gradually, scam websites are cheating masses by their ways. Many fraudulent are busy in such kind of malicious acts, and using their tools and techniques for scams. Before you know how to report scam website, you should know how to identify one.
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We can spot scam websites easily
Websites are the main source of knowledge and information on the internet, when you start your search engines for your desired purpose, there you find thousands of websites offer you their services for that. You choose the best for your work and business, and start using it, but after a while you came to know the fact that, services you were offered were not provided by your website. These websites are being run by the people, who are abundantly armed by the contemporary techniques of internet. These cybercriminals are only obsessive to cheat the innocent people.
These malicious actors are dangerous for those who are really helping the people by their services. When you are using any websites for your business, then it is your right to check the provider that is it true or fake? Here we discuss how we can spot a scam website and how to report scam website when you have found one.
· Check the name of domain
All scam websites use the same domain name, which relate to any product or well- known brand. You should also be watchful with the names ended with .net or .org as they are rarely used for online shopping.
· Watch for poor grammar and English
A real professional company or website always take cares for the language that they use with their users and clients in messages or e-mails, should be exact or without any grammar mistakes. On the other side these scam websites never tend these professional methods. Poor English with bad punctuation and grammar mistakes indicates that the website is fake.
· Offers the best of all
These scammers use the weakness of its consumers that people attract towards the things with low prices and should be in best form. They offer low prices with silly discounts, to attract the hungry shoppers, to sell their fake items. When your money is involved you should be very careful about using websites, and try to run away from such kind of offers which are too good to be true.
· Address bar may also be helpful
Always pay attention to the address bar, when a site is secured you will a padlock next to the web address. You may also notice that the address will be highlighted green for your convenience. If you don’t see all of these things in address bar it is also an indication for the user that the website he/she is using is a scam.
· Be alert about contact details
The main thing is for you to be cautious about the contact details are given on the website are genuine or not? Look the ways to contact the company whether it is phone, e-mail or physical address, and then try them out, and if e-mail is the only way to their access then do it with care. Scam websites don’t have the reliable contact and if you try to contact them, nobody answers your questions. An important point to mention in how to report scam website is to find out the actual contact details of the scam somehow.
· Never give personal details
If a website asks for your personal details such as credit card number or your account number. Bells should be ringing in your years if you asked to pay something online via bank transfer. Always use the secure payment options.
Not so lucky to be protected by the scammers
By noticing all of these indications you can save yourself with the fraudulent websites, and if you are not so lucky then you will be the next victim of these malicious actors. And if you have become the prey, the first thing comes to your mind that where should I go? What should be the way to recover your loss? We are lucky enough that we are living in a modern and innovative world, there was a time when there was no platform for those who became the victims of these scammers. But now with the passage of time web community understood the pain and sorrow of the victims and now, internet world is providing different dais to complaint about your loss.
· Local authorities
Local authorities the one who should be informed about the scam so they could take steps for your welfare, but it is bitter fact that local bodies can only help you physically but they cannot pay back your loss. Before reporting to your local bodies you should be completely armed with all the details about the scam website.
· Complaints online
After informing local bodies search for other online websites, which are working for the victims of frauds. There are some websites who are providing their services to act upon your complaints. These websites offer you the services of their online team of lawyers to help you, on the other hand you can get the services of psychologist for your mental support. We have IWF(internet watch foundation),which is working for the malicious website, you can file your complaints here about child pornography. They help the victims internationally. There are also other websites which deals with money frauds or scams and assure you to pay back your lost money. Money_back.com is the biggest source to get back your money, you can inform them about your scam and they will assist you with their best services to get back your amount. You
Last thing to say
Bad things and people are effecting the mankind from the beginning of universe but it is our duty and right to be protected by such fraudulent attempts. You are not the only one who is unlucky and has been cheated by the cyber criminals. Many people are facing the same situation every day. It is only up to you that how can you avoid them and be protected by these scams. Once you know how to report scam website, you should teach others so they can be protected as well.
