Protect yourself from Black Friday scammers with these 3 tips [Video]

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Black Friday is the perfect time to pick up holiday gifts at a discount. It’s also the most likely day of the year to fall victim to a scam online, according to the director of Norton’s Scam Research Labs.

About 50% of online consumers each year are swindled by various schemes to steal money or data, Norton’s Leyla Bilge told Fox News Digital. Of those heists, she said, 30% take place on Black Friday, 16% take place on Christmas Day, 14% take place on Christmas Eve; and 11% take place on Cyber Monday.

But as shoppers take advantage of holiday deals, the cybersecurity company’s research lab has identified the most common online scams, and Bilge shared tips on how to evade each one.

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Tags Cyber Security, Data Protection, Information Security