anti-fraud

Reading a web address

Author: 
Luke Tarplin

This article is one for beginners, if you know how to read a web address correctly you are less likely to fall victim to online fraud such as phishing scams. The reason being that you will be able to judge for yourself how reliable a link or webpage is.

The components that make up a web address are as follows.

Example Web Address
[http://][www].[[ukvoipnet].[com]]/[comparison]

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