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Advice on avoiding online scams for credit card holders from Get Safe Online

Credit card holders who use their cards to shop online may be interested in new advice on avoiding scams from Get Safe Online.

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6 August 2009

Advice on avoiding online scams for credit card holders from Get Safe Online”

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Tony Neate, managing director of Get Safe Online said that consumers need to be aware that internet scams are becoming more prevalent and should take some simple precautions to make sure they are buying from reputable sources.

"[Consumers should] make sure [they know] where [the company] is based, and if there is a landline telephone number that could be spoken of, and if there is a postal address in the UK. [Consumers should] follow this through and also to check all of these particular issues whenever they go into somewhere new to buy goods and services," he said.

Mr Neate's comments follow reports from Trading Standards Officer Paul Miloseski-Reid that people set up scams pretending to sell goods that do not exist and that it can be very difficult to track the person behind the misleading site.

Mr Miloseski-Reid said that anyone in the world can buy a UK website so people see the site and think they are buying from a UK company.

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