Am I on the wrong page?

Many times I am asked on various social media platforms if I can buy from this website, if someone knows the site, if it is trustworthy, etc. because I don't want to be a victim of fraud. You don't want to be mistaken for a fake site. Let's look at what you need to look at, what you need to search for, what you need to check to decide whether you can buy from the site you are looking at. There are several ways to do this. Let's start with a check that requires no special knowledge, just our eyes and our judgement.

Website name - URL address

If you read the name of the page, that might be the first suspicious sign. If it's easy to read and understand, and doesn't contain any characters or numbers, then it's a sign of confidence. If we can't read the title, if we can't make sense of it, if the letters are in a nonsensical sequence, if there are hyphens, underscores and numbers, that should make us suspicious. Of course, the URL does not have to be in Hungarian, it can be in English, but it should make some sense when translated.

Mobile view

If you can and you have a mobile phone or tablet nearby, open the page you want to see on each device to see what you see. How the page looks on different devices. If it's a serious, professional site, they'll take that into account and make the interface responsive on all devices. If we see text or images sliding off the page, not breaking up the text properly, that's a tell-tale sign. can be found at.

Language

If you see multiple languages within a page, or the language used varies between pages, that can be reason enough to be suspicious. For example, if a headline is in Hungarian, the description is in Polish and the products are in English, or if the Hungarian text contains unintelligible or inappropriate words, or if the text is not in Hungarian or is not regular, then a further check may be necessary.

Information from

Check if the page has a "Contact Us" page, or at least a Contact Us section, where the following should be listed:

• company name: you can check the company in the e-commerce register, when it was founded, who the owners are and what its activities are. If the company is newly established and the activities listed are very contradictory or have nothing to do with the activities listed on the website, this is not a good sign.
• company address: you can look it up on Google Maps and see what you can see at that address. Usually a site is given here, which can be anything, but if it is NOT just a big field, a wasteland, or a very old, run-down building, then it is a reason to be confident.
• shopping: if there is a personal pick-up option, you can also check the pick-up address to see if you can actually go there and pick up the product you ordered.
• phone number: the minimum requirement for a site ending in ".hu" is to have a Hungarian phone number. You can check it to the extent that you can even call the number, but you can also check with the operator who it belongs to, based on the area code you enter. Companies don't usually encrypt the number, so if you can't find out who the number belongs to anywhere, that could be a warning sign.
• e-mail address: if you are a serious company, you will be given a company e-mail address and not a gmail, hotmail, freemail, etc. websegely.hu The email address of the page is "info@websegely.hu" and not "websegely@gmail.com".

Mandatory elements of the website

Websites where we can shop must comply with legal requirements. If they are not, it may be a warning sign that you are not dealing with a "law-abiding" seller. What are these mandatory elements?

• Imprint: here you should list the company details, the hosting provider and very serious companies even include their accountant
• Privacy Policy
• GTCF: General Terms and Conditions
• Cookie Observatory
• GDPR pop-up window

In addition, they usually have separate menus describing delivery terms, payment methods, information on returning products and there is also a FAQ section.

Other control options

If you're a bit more serious about using the internet, you can easily find out when and where the website you're shopping on was created. There are various online platforms that can be used free of charge. One such site that provides secure and reliable information is whois.domaintools.com website.

Also, if you're a bit of a website builder, there's a downloadable plugin called Wappalyzer that lets you see how much effort has been put into making a particular page. Here you can see what system the site was built on, what plugins were used. From these we can also see if we are dealing with a serious company or if we are dealing with a free sales platform or a very cheap one that was quickly put together.

In summary, as technology advances, there are more and more opportunities to check the authenticity of a site and if possible, take advantage of them. Let's not waste time checking, let's not say "oh, this must be a good site, it's so nice, why would they want to cheat me?" Let's take the time to check it out, because we vote with our purchases, with our money. Let's not give way to scammers who either just want our money and don't send us anything or not what we might have ordered.