70. Shopping Security Stack: Phishing
Published on: Jul 4, 2025
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Questions we answer in this episode
What's the first skill we need to stay safe shopping online?
What are the two buckets of bad shopping websites?
What are the two buckets of phishing websites?
What is the first item on our "safe website" checklist?
Episode summary
A vital skill in staying safe while shopping online is knowing how to tell if a website is safe. You need to be on the watch for not only phishing sites, but scam websites too.
We usually think of phishing websites as clones of specific websites, like gmail, where the objective is to steal your password. But with shopping, the objective of a phishing website is to gather as much personal information about you as they can, including your credit card.
The first question on our safe website checklist is this: is the website less than a year old? If the answer to that question is yes, my advice is: run away, do not shop there, do not even browse there.
Call to action
Visit linklantern.com, put in any website, then look for the answer to the first item on our checklist:
is the website less than a year old?
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