Safe Online Business Tips


by Dylan Sun - Date: 2007-09-28 - Word Count: 456 Share This!

As was discussed elsewhere in another article, there are lot of security risks associated with carrying out online business in e-commerce for various tasks involved international trade across borders, import/export of goods or services, and global sourcing. Nevertheless this does not mean to say that people should stop using e-commerce for activities of international trade, import/export and global sourcing. Rather a few simple tips if followed carefully can go a long way to ensure that there is minimal possibility of any fraud in such dealings. Most people are afraid of going into such transactions thinking that they are not capable of carrying out import/export, global sourcing or international trade via e-commerce for lack of technical knowledge; but it must be said that such activities do not require any specialized skill set but only a few tips given below plus some common sense which all of us certainly possess to a lower or higher degree. Given below are a few tips which could be help in e-commerce activities.

Firstly people involved in buying products online (or selling them) i.e. international trade, import/export or global sourcing at any level, should use proper software for online safety. For example if one wants to give credit card information, he/she must ensure that there is antivirus software installed on the system. This would ensure that most fake websites can be detected by features of website checking in most reputed protection software.

Simple tips such as frequent change of passwords can act as a strong deterrent to anyone bent upon cracking passwords by use of brute force and hence the e-commerce activity carried out in this manner can be done freely without much tension of lost or stolen information and so forth. International trade often involves carrying out of import/export and global sourcing activities and this does involve frequent exchange of sensitive data via e-commerce technologies and this sensitive data could be in the form of personal particulars, credit information and so forth. This data should not fall into wrong hands.

One of the most common mistakes done while carrying out e-commerce is to deal with fake online websites in the name of international trade, import/export or global sourcing and such a mistake just needs common sense to avoid it. For example if an email comes to your account and claims to give you a free product in return for your bank details, just beware of it. Also you could check out the email address if it comes from a strange sort of address it is surely spam mail.

In this way we can ensure that following simple tips can lead us to a healthy and safe online business practices whilst carrying out international trade or using e-commerce for import/export or global sourcing purposes.


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