Top Ten Online Shopping Tips

Online shopping is easy and convenient, can offer choice and help you find the very best deals. In advance of Black Friday and with an eye on the rapidly increasing volume of shopping being done online in 2020, FraudSMART has produced a short guide to the top ten online shopping tips you can take to protect yourself online.

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_gid	1 day	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
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