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The Oklahoma Attorney General has issued information on how to avoid online shopping scams. The easiest way, of course, is to shop with your local merchants so that exposing your private information and credit/debit card information is not a risk.

There seems to be a greater amount of frantic shopping online as I visit with people. The frantic element might cause people to act hastily and skip the normal safeguards they usually use. Here's what the AG said:

-Never click on popup ads – popup ads could contain malware or spyware that will infect computers with a virus or steal personal informati...