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Online provide so much ease, convenience and fun for the buying customer. it is also known that some of the items sold online, in retail stores or in auctions in the net are sometimes hard to find,. That makes it even more exciting and provides much more customer satisfaction. But as the online stores and shopping malls are spreading like mushrooms, so do the scammers. Whats worse, they have phony websites to fool you even more. There are ways to know if you’re dealing with a legitimate business or not. But first and foremost, what you need to do is update your anti virus security. This provides the first line of defense. The next thing is to check that the site has an SSL logo, a service that provides security for online retail and banking. You can detect that it is also secure if you see “https” on the address bar rather than just “http”.