John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:20:11 -0500 > Fred James <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> And a repeat of the standard: buy only from known and trusted >> > > There are millions of web merchants. I can't know them all. How can I > tell if a site is trusted? > John Jason Jordan That would be the question ... one which I should decline to answer specifically, except to offer the usual advice ... always check the ratings and the comments behind the ratings. In other words, what have been the experiences of other buyers with any one particular vendor? The same can be asked of any particular product, in some cases. But this whole problem isn't new, or specific to the Internet ... such things are not at all unknown in the "brick and mortar" world.
One could add ... it looks too good to be true, it probably is ... but your particular question concerns identity theft, not a product and possibly not a merchant. All the same it is just more reason to be cautious about who you deal with. Capitalism is at core a very mean and competitive world view. That isn't a criticism ... it is just better to see what is. With that, I wish you good luck. Regards Fred James _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
