Saudi Commerce Ministry warns shoppers against online scams
Saudi Commerce Ministry warns shoppers against online scams April 1, 2021, Arabnews The ministry urges consumers to only deal with trusted stores, and not to respond to social media that promotes unknown and unreliable foreign websites. Efforts continue to track and block unknown and unreliable links to protect consumers JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has recently become the target of online fraudsters and scammers whose fake logos impersonate government entities in an attempt to lure not only naive online shoppers but experienced ones. The Saudi Ministry of Commerce renewed its warning to consumers against shopping with unknown and unreliable foreign electronic stores. It said that monitoring and follow-up operations had led to group of websites belonging to a Chinese store, which was blocked earlier, in addition to 184 links to sites with different names. The ministry confirmed that it is continuing its efforts to track and block these links to protect consumers in coordination with the compet...