Poll analysis 3

The poll question for last week was "How do you make payment for online purchases?"

According to the poll result, the majority of people which is 78.57%, would rather choose internet banking than the other online payment methods. Besides that, the minority of people would make payment by using debit cards and cash on delivery(COD) while at the same time both have got 7.14% votes. In addition, there is 7.14% of the people voted for "other" votes and has entered cash deposite as their answer.

Based on the responds we have got in the previous poll analysis, some said that rather go shopping in the shopping mall than shopping online. This is because of they can touch and try the product before purchase it. There are many risks and tricks in the internet, online shoppers have to be aware about cracking and hacking. They might hack your account and steal your information for another purposes. What do you think about our poll? Is the result announced in your expectation? Feel free to drop comments.

The secure of online credit card transaction

Reference:http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online%20

Recently, my web development lecturer Mr. Andrew has taught a lesson which is about the tools and methods of cybercrime and the safeguard (the solution to solve the risk of cybercrime) which is very useful in my topic, and I get to learn more. I get to know actually online shopping is very dangerous in some way.

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Reference:

Credit Card and Online Shopping, Decribe the credit card [Online], Retrieved 6th February 2009

URL: http://credit.echoes-act3.com/o/post_64.html

The paragraph above claims that among the payments like bank transfer and credit card payment the consumers will choose credit card payment on the spot. This is convienience to complete the purchase. Moreover, the consumers no need go to bank and transfer the money after they have booked the stuff.

Mostly people are paying by credit card while doing online shopping, which I found is very dangerous. CCV, as know as credit card validation, it available behind of the physical card, it was numbers that state behind the credit card. In reality, the store will normally, verified the card with a Point of Sale terminal to handle credit card transactions, like what you can see when you buy things by using credit card in a store or market. A receipt will be given by the cashier to keep it as a proof of the trade. But in online shopping, it seems natural that online commerce would be done with credit cards rather than other kind of payments. Just simply type our credit card number into the merchant's World Wide Web (www) page payment form and wait for our purchase to be shipped to us. The only thing that needs to pass between the merchant and the buyer is the credit card number. The problem is, it's not that simple and safe. In the open networking, the data show and flow without unencrypted, the mischief-maker may uses the number without the person permission to do some unknown trade and action. Unless there is a security based provision built in that can ease the people`s fear, a secure server is one that uses a protocol such as SSL or S-HTTP to transmit data between the server and browser, which a person have to beware of that before making any payment by using credit card.

Here is a video showing PayPal hacking...

There are a lot of videos like this in the internet. The hackers show how they hack other people accounts and password, teaching people how to hack PayPal money.

Risks of Shopping Online

Hi~ Everybody! Today I will discuss about the risks of shopping online. Generally, the greater risk of shopping online is the process of making payment which involved in sharing credit cards over the internet. The consumers might get their credit cards data to be stolen and then the bad people in the net may be use the the credit card number to make transactions.

Besides, the consumers might access to fraudulent online shopping websites. The fraudsters accepting consumer's payment which pay by the credit card for their purchases and within one or two days the particular website is gone. At this time, it is too late to cancel their transaction when the consumer found out this and they still need to pay for their purchases.

On the other hand, the consumers sometimes complained that the item they received is not as nice looking as they seen in the picture from internet. The worse thing is, they might receive broken item from the seller while the item sold out is not changeable or refundable.

That is what I have heard from my friends who has shopping online. There is many false and tricks in the online shopping. You as a smart consumer, you have to be smart choosing online shopping sites and be careful while making payment for your purchases. Feel free to share your experience of shopping online here and your opinion about risks of shopping online. We are glad to hear you.. Thanks for spending time for this article..

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