El Buen Fin is approaching and will offer Mexican families hundreds of discountsas well as the opportunity to access the best prices or payment facilities, these promotions will be available from November 15 to 18, 2024.
However, During this sales season there is a possibility of being a victim of fraud because cybercriminals take advantage of card payments and they can even pretend to be a store or bank to steal users’ information or money.
For this situation It is important to stay attentive to cybersecurity and fraud prevention adviceTherefore, it is important to take into account a series of tips and recommendations to avoid this type of scam.
According to the official El Buen Fin website, to protect your information or income if you make your payments through digital media or online payments, You must take into account the following instructions:
- Block debit or credit cards when you don’t use them in your banking app
- Parameterize your operations in your Electronic Banking
- Do not provide information or share information about keys, passwords or bank details to third parties, or on social networks.
- Make sure your bank details have access blocking
- Change your access password frequently and make sure they are different for each application.
- Use digital cards with dynamic security code
- Only use secure pages
- Enable two-step authentication
- Do not install applications that unauthorized third parties recommend as a result of an unrecognized charge
- Update your device’s operating system, browser and the store application
- Make periodic backups of your information
- Do not use bank details, log out, clear cache and passwords on public or shared computers
- If the email or message has spelling and grammatical errors, doubt its veracity, as it could be a fraud.
- Stay alert for urgent requests, preferably do not respond to them
- Check the sender of the email or SMS, if you don’t know it, don’t open it
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Buen Fin 2024: So you can make safe purchases online
The official page of El Buen Fin, through the internet association, It also gives the following cybersecurity tips that will help you make safe purchases:
- Check the internet link address before opening it
- Check the URL for HTTPS or a closed padlock before sending information
- Do not download attachments or click on links whose origin you are not sure of.
- If you have questions, talk directly to your Bank to confirm promotions, alerts, charges, etc.
- Make your purchases safely in official and verified online stores
- Buy from recognized pages with a good reputation
- Verify that there are social networks, physical address or some form of contact
- If an offer is too good to be true, it’s probably fraud.
- Review delivery information and payment method
- Search the name of the site on networks to see other users’ experiences
- Use secure payment methods such as PayPal or Mercado Pago
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