trust on the net

[informashun]

how does one know for eg if a web site offering say travel money is genuine?

[squarebear]

You don't. If buying on the internet, I would always only use high street names that you klnow and trust.

If you post the website, I will happily take a look and check it out for you.

[cathfromsaron]

wouldn't risk it! and its easier to cash in if you get it locally! x

[sandyRoe]

There was a con exposed just a while ago. The company had 'an order fall through' and just happened to have the currency you need and you could have it at a very good rate.

[johnk]

If the site doesn't have a UK postal address don't use it. If the payment page URL doesn't start with https don't use it.

[dzug2]

There are tell tale signs if a website is dodgy - the presence of a UK address and landline phone number is the main one. The offer being too good to be true is another.

Though the site referred to by Sandy Roe (if it's the same one) would have passed the test, apart from the too good to be true. And that only applied the last few months it existed - for a fair few years it fulfulled all its orders.

The High Street isn't necessarily 'safe' either - there are occasional stories of obsolete or fake notes being given out there. And you can always get mugged......

[dzug2]

<and its easier to cash in if you get it locally!>

There's no law or anything else that says you must cash it back where you got it.

[dzug2]

<<the presence of a UK address and landline phone number is the main one.>>

oops just reread that and it's the wrong way round. The absence of those things is something that should arouse suspicion

[Buenchico]

Some of the tests I use for checking out a website are listed in my post here:
http://www.theanswerb...7.html#answer-5432405

For web addresses with 'uk' in them, this is where to find some of the information:
http://www.nic.uk/other/whois/
For others, try this:
http://who.is/

Watch out for poor grammar or spelling (or for links which go nowhere) on a web site. Also take a look at the 'terms and conditions' page; rogue websites often simply copy and paste such pages from legitimate sites. If your see US spellings (and references to American laws) on a website which purports to be British, you should be suspicious.

However simply doing a Google search, with the word 'review' in front of the name of the website can often tell you a lot. Finally, posting a specific question here will get lots of people to check the site for you (or possibly to recommend it, if it's one that they regularly use without problems).

Chris

[informashun]

squarebear,
many thanks for you kind offer but did some digging myself and got a great deal and customer care with buymycurrecy.
they have been excellent and would recommend.
anyway, thanks again.