Shopping Scams Await Online Bargain Hunters

With holiday shopping season in full swing, consumers are turning to online shopping to search for the best deals they can find. Stores like Walmart have already released their Black Friday specials and Cyber Monday deals follow close behind. But when you type "best deal on..." into a search engine, you just might end up at a site selling counterfeit goods.

Nielsen conducted research looking at over five million shopping sessions and the search terms used in those sessions and found one in five bargain hunters (American and European) wound up on sites selling counterfeit goods. The ones who were taken to the rogue sites had searched terms like "cheap," "discount" and "outlet".

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