Is this website safe? The Police clarify the myths about the padlock in the address bar

In the current shopping era we find ourselves in, cybercriminals are increasing their strategies to scam a large group of people who are looking for the desired product of the year at the most competitive price possible.

At a key moment of Black Friday and at the threshold of Christmas shopping for the month of December, the National Police has taken the opportunity to publish a video on its TikTok account to warn about the false sense of security when visiting a series of pages on the Internet.

Specifically, the National Police speaks of the relevant padlock that appears in the address bar next to the website address.

They comment that many people think that by accessing these types of pages they can make purchases or trust them completely safely, but this is not the case.

All pages with a lock in the address bar are those that use the HTTPS protocolwhich basically means that the connection is encrypted and our data is secure.

However, This does not mean that we are on a safe page since it could have links with viruses or imitate other trustworthy ones to obtain our data..

In fact, practically 99% of the pages on the Internet have this HTTPS protocol, which most hosting even already offer completely automatically and free of charge.

With this, the National Police explains that we do not totally trust these pagesand if we see something strange, like that they ask for too much personal information, we abandon them.

Basically, the user must use common sense to avoid falling for scams on the Internet, so if, for example, you are looking for a product, and you see it on a little-known page much cheaper than on others, it is likely that it is a scam. .

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