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Fake Shopping App: Shopping with fake apps during the festive season may prove costly, how to keep yourself safe..

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Due to the festive season, the sale is live on both Amazon and Flipkart e-commerce platforms. Great discounts are being offered on smartphones and other devices in the sale. In such a situation, there are also some fake apps which are cheating people.

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It is also difficult for common people to identify real and fake shopping apps. Due to this, they get deceived. If you want to keep yourself safe from these fake shopping apps, then it is very important to take care of some important things.

How to identify fake shopping apps
If you want to keep yourself safe from scams while shopping, then you should know some nuances. By checking which things you can identify fake shopping apps. We are telling here.

Avoid installing APK apps: If you install APK apps, then you should be a little careful.

Read about reviews and developers- Before trusting any app, you must read its reviews and developers thoroughly.

Release date- Also check when the app was launched.

Mistake in description- It is often seen that many types of mistakes are found in the description of fake apps. So you must read it.

Install number- If an app is years old and the download number is also not much, then in this situation you should do some more research about the shopping app.

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Do not shop from anywhere.
Many people shop from anywhere in the festive season to save more and make payments first. Whereas doing this can harm you. One should never shop from the links that come on Facebook and Instagram.

Check the reliability of the shopping app.

Always give preference to the cash-on-delivery option.

Do read the reviews of the app.

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