Security News > 2020 > November > Black Friday – stay safe before, during and after peak retail season
The day after Thanksgiving became known as Black Friday because it was a day on which so much retail trade was done that many retailers, in a good year at least, would make enough money to bring their annual trading accounts into the black, leaving them with the rest of the Christmas shopping season to make their profit for the year.
With Black Friday now popular not just in the US but all over the world, there's no global Thursday thanksgiving holiday that ties Black Friday to a specific Friday, or even to a Friday at all.
So we now have retail sales billed with linguistically curious names such "Black Friday week" and even "Black Friday month", with deals vigorously advertised before, during and and after the actual US Thanksgiving weekend.
The crooks aren't going to wait until Black Friday itself to try to scam you, and they aren't going to stop their criminality when Black Friday is done.
Here are six tips to stay safe online, whether you're shopping for bargains because it's Black Friday season, or shopping online because that's become an unavoidable part of your 2020 lifestyle.