Fraud in ecommerce? This is the security demanded by notaries

In electronic commerce there is always a risk of fraud. These are the measures that European notaries ask to avoid it.

If you do not usually buy on the internet, you have more than one suspicion: you do not like to give your card number, you do not trust completely, you do not know if you are buying in a safe place, distrust of possible data thieves ... definitive, the fact of buying on the Net generates some doubts that, generally, do not want to clear.

If you are a regular ecommerce, however, you are sure to go much more relaxed. But in any case, the certainty is never complete. Because there are well-known portals in which you assume that there will be no problems, but when are you looking for that product that is only on a website that you barely know?

Technophobes (or not) aside, the truth is that electronic commerce still continues to generate certain doubts among consumers, and that has to be solved. And European notaries believe they have found a possible alternative.

A certificate of legality at European level

The consensus seems almost unanimous. The European notary association, which brings together some 40,000 professionals, is working on a possible special certificate that can be awarded to e-commerce websites to support their reliability.

The thing would work so that a notary could access any ecommerce website located within the European Union to verify all their security measures and to ensure that their legal notice is up to date with the e-commerce laws driven from the EU.

If everything is in order, the notary will grant this web a kind of quality certificate, which would be worth as added value to the possible doubts of the users. This certificate would be multilingual and would be distributed throughout Europe.

Fraud, a real danger

And is that, without wanting to raise the alarm too much, the truth is that the odds of someone cheating you in an ecommerce are there. This certificate, therefore, would try to reduce the chances of that happening.

In addition, European notaries are moderately concerned about the 'mobility' of some companies. And is that there are times that an ecommerce portal has its headquarters in one country, the commercial office in another and the production center in another. In such cases, they say, applying a single law is not easy.

In fact, they are convinced that, on many occasions, this apparent "mobility" ends up being an excuse to commit fraud or, at best, to take advantage of the legislation that each country may have and adapt to it to pay the least possible.

For this reason, notaries ask that the European Union be clear not only when establishing a single legislation, but also when verifying that each of these websites complies with that legislation in each of its sales. Only this way, they say, could reduce the confidence gap that many users have towards online shopping.