Andrea Carla B.

This article offers eight actionable tips for smart online shopping. These tips are categorized into two sections:

Prevention tips—how not to get scammed while shopping online, and

After the incident tips—what to do after you've been scammed.

Let's look at each of these sections more closely.

How to Avoid Online Shopping Scams
You review it. Before you buy anything from an online retail store, first run a background check on it. Or more realistically, Google it. See if other shoppers have used it, and critically review their feedback. There are several review sites out there, but a great place to start is the Better Business Bureau. When conducting the review, smart shoppers pay attention to the answers to the following questions:

Then if you already scam report to police.

The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said that it might consider the recommendation of the Metro Manila Council (MMC) to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to ease Covid-19 guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals in the National Capital Region (NCR).
However, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the main consideration for the decision is the fact that majority of the population is still not vaccinated "and hence it may lead to discrimination especially to those who don't have access to vaccines yet."
"We are carefully reviewing and studying these kinds of recommendations. Furthermore, DOH maintains that we still cannot differentiate between those vaccinated and unvaccinated as Covid-19 vaccines are not transmission-blocking," Vergeire said.
Fully vaccinated individuals, she pointed out, can still get infected and even transmit the virus.
On Thursday, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr., also the concurrent chairman of MMC, said that easing of restrictions for fully vaccinated individuals in the metropolis would help the government's campaign to vaccinate the rest of the population, and that the move would gradually bolster economic activities, particularly industries and services greatly hit by the pandemic.
"With the NCR being considered right now to be the epicenter of this pandemic and the region with the most number of vaccinated individuals, we are confident that we can find the right balance between safeguarding the public's health and reviving the economy," Abalos said.
Abalos cited that the NCR registered around 56 percent of the eligible population or 5,492,344 individuals who have completed their doses as of September 8, while 84.21 percent of the eligible population or 8,262,558 individuals already received their first vaccine shot.
"Administering first dose of the vaccine is crucial, but approximately a month from now, since most of the Covid-19 shots have a three to four-week interval from the first shot, those who got their first jabs will eventually complete their vaccination," he said.
Abalos added that by October 8, Metro Manila is expected to reach 77.57-percent vaccination rate or 7,601,685 of the total eligible population.
"The more people who complete their inoculation, the sooner we can achieve population protection," he said.
"And since the AstraZeneca vaccine has an interval of 12 weeks at most between the first dose and the second dose, we expect 87 percent of the eligible population in NCR to be vaccinated in three months time or not later than December 8," Abalos added.
Metro Manila local chief executives urged the IATF to "consider the easing of the Covid-19 guidelines for fully-vaccinated individuals in NCR subject to the conduct of an inter-agency and inter-disciplinary study to determine the appropriate policy therefore based on scientific and empirical evidence," the resolution, which was unanimously approved, stated.
Metro Manila remains under modified enhanced community quarantine until September 15.
The MMC, composed of the 17 Metro Manila mayors, is the governing and policy-making body of the MMDA.