Online shopping has become a huge part of our daily lives. More so during this pandemic when shopping online is often the safest way to do so. While companies are naturally trying their best to capitalise on this, it has also led to scammers trying to exploit the opportunity.
Most often, scams like these show up as ads, or sometimes in your inbox. The best thing to do is to use a little common sense. In most cases clone websites have problems such as the ones we saw with this particular Flipkart clone. They look different, things might not work properly, etc.
However, if a website looks perfect to you, but the deal is just too good to be true, take a look at the URL. This can’t be faked. You can’t have ‘flipkart.com’ or ‘amazon.in’ pointing to a different website than the original. As you can see, that’s not the Flipkart URL.
Found this advertisement on @Facebook india of a @SamsungIndia #GalaxyM31 selling on @amazonIN at 5k. Turned out to be a website with URL – https://t.co/MxkM5ulF89#FraudAlert@geekyranjit @beebomco @AmreliaRuhez @stufflistings pic.twitter.com/N69BBeuLUw
