Checking account cleaned out!

I received a frantic call recently to attempt to trace someone’s online order for a camera they purchased. Not only did their camera not arrive their checking account was emptied out. They gave me the web address of where they ordered it from and it was an unsecured site.

The next time you are about to enter personal information online for such task as banking, ordering something using your credit/debit card etc. or paying a bill, look at the address bar on top. If it starts with http not https you may want to think twice about typing in any personal information.

You need to see https. The S after http stands for Secure Sockets layer (SSL), another protocol primarily developed with secure, safe Internet transactions in mind. 

< -----  Again if the http is missing the S after it you better run.