Tips to Avoid On-line Fraud

To help protect you from fraud when shopping online here are a few good shopping habits you may want to consider:

• Incorporate both letters and numbers in your password. Avoid using your street address, license plate or phone number. A good tip would be to think up a lyric from your favourite song and use the first letter or few letters from each word in the lyric to create your password.
• Look at the prefix in the browser window when you are conducting a transaction online with sensitive personal information – “https://” or http://. The “s” indicates you’re on a secure site.
• Remember to log out of a secure website before you close your browser, this will ensure that any information is cleared from your computer’s memory.