30 People Who Deeply Regret Shopping Online
Go directly to the seller’s site rather than clicking a “coupon” link that was sent to you by an unknown source.
Scammers can often use a tactic called cross-site scripting to craft a hyperlink that appears to be the actual merchant site but actually relays your credit card information to the scammer when you put your payment information into the payment web form. Unless you can verify that a coupon came from the actual vendor’s site to which you have already subscribed, it’s best to avoid random coupons with unknown origins.
