How to check whether an E-commerce Website is genuine or fake?

How to check whether an E-commerce Website is genuine or fake?

While purchasing through an e-commerce platform, have you ever wondered whether the website is genuine or not or is it safe to buy from there? If you have not then please start doing that. As to check whether the e-commerce website that you are going to is genuine or not is much important for the safety of your requirements. Fraud website can result in hacking your personal details like address, phone number your account details. Therefore, you must take care of some points that have been explained below before you buy anything from an online e-commerce website as:

Ecommerce Website: Genuine or not?

·         Check contact details

The first and the foremost thing is to find and click the tab “contact us” and then check the contact details like its email address, phone number of the website. These are the two major things in contact details if you found them missing then never trust that website.

·         Check who has registered a website

So, you might be thinking about how to check who has registered the website or who is the owner, etc. The good news is that you can find it out with one click. It will give you the detail of ownership, phone number, email address, etc. Log on to  https://www.whois.com/whois/ and just put the URL of the website. It will provide you with all the details of ownership, phone number, email address, etc. And if there is no data found, then the website is fake and you should not use it.

·         Check Google transparency report

Google the transparency report is the basic tool with the help of which you will be able to know if there is unsafe content on the website. This is crucial to check because there are chances of the virus might attack your system or your system can be hacked.

·         Check social media presence

Any good the brand will have a good social media presence like Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and this list goes on and on. You should check how old is the page or account, how they have responded to their feedbacks, queries, reviews of their products & company on their social media handles, no. of followers of that page, etc. All these pointers will create a clear image of that ecommerce website & it's authenticity.

·         Return and exchange policy

You must not buy stuff from any website without reading and understanding the return and exchange policy. The clearer the terms and conditions of return and exchange more the organization will be likely to be genuine.

·         Look and feel of the website

One can easily make out from the look and feel of the website, you must see how professional the website looks, the quality of the photographs, the product specification, etc all these factors will help to understand the real thing.

·         Check customer feedback

As, it is rightly said that one must learn from other mistakes. There are many people who have already brought from the website and have given their reviews in the form of content.

Conclusion

You must never judge the website by applying any one or two points mentioned above but the maximum of them when applied together will increase the chances of dealing with the real thing.

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