when you go onto a webite like Dell,how can you tell if its the official one and not a scam site?

Question

I know it has the little lock when you place an order,but can anyone produce an authentic web page,just to try and obtain your credit card details,
also when you call to place an order over the phone,how can you ever tell your details won't fall into the wrong hands

another thing why would the dell telephone number they have on their website,be different to the one in my PC magazine ?

Answer 1

To answer your first question, make sure that the web address leading up to the first slash (/) ends in dell.com (https://.dell.com/ As for your second question, Dell has several numbers you can call. They use the different numbers on different ads to track how well each ad does. It is for marketing. If they don't get many calls to the magazine's phone number then they know not to run that ad again.

Answer 2

Difficult, I have a Dell magazine in front of me. It gives its websitesite as www.dell.co.uk/b2b, but when you enter this on the web browser it goes to a site http://www1.euro.dell.com/content

Always look at the adrress in the browser bar, Ive not heard of a Dell scam, but there are loads of others - banks for instance

Always type your internet addresses into the browser, do not trust links from emails or websites that may be dubious.

Answer 3

Some people might try to replicate the site, but they can't have the exact url. They might make it "delll.com" instead of "dell.com" so if someone mispells it, they go to the wrong site. The different number might be to a different department of Dell, such as customer service, maintenance, etc.
Here's the official site: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/odg/odg_special49?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Answer 4

check it at veriSign website...
www.verisign.com
and other website like verisign purpose...

Answer 5

paranoid or what? chill a little

Answer 6

maybe