Avoid too-good-to-be-true offers when doing travel booking online

While on a trip, don't conduct sensitive transactions over public Wi-Fi

This summer, thousands of travellers will do their travel, hotel and other bookings online.

A recent survey by online security provider McAfee warns that they need to be highly vigilant when carrying out these bookings.  

McAfee’s Safer Holidays Travel Report, based on a survey of 7,000 people across seven countries (1,010 in India), found that 51 per cent of Indian adults surveyed have fallen victim to an online scam while doing travel-related booking. And, 77 per cent of those who had money stolen from them lost up to $1000 (around Rs 82,000) even before the trip began.

Risky behaviour

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