Security on gofundmepages

[Up Rovers]

I'm wary of making donations on the internet with any of my cards because I suffered internet fraud some years ago.

I wanted to donate today to a 'gofundme' page but notice that there is no https on the main donation page. Is there much risk involved or am I being over cautious?

 

[kickstart]

No https? That's pretty bad. I would decline to hand over any sensitive information at all if I thought someone had lacked the basic sense to turn on encryption. It costs next to nothing, and is technically very simple, so there's no excuse at all. I wouldn't decline because I feared for the lack of security for the transaction in itself - my concern would be about my data once it's been handed over - if they can't be bothered to turn on https, how cavalier will they be with my data into the future? I think you are right to keep away in this case.

 

[EmmDee]

I'm wary of making donations on the internet with any of my cards because I suffered internet fraud some years ago.

I wanted to donate today to a 'gofundme' page but notice that there is no https on the main donation page. Is there much risk involved or am I being over cautious?

I just had a look. I see "https" on all their pages including the donation page. They also have the list of security links there on the donation page - SSL, Visa and MasterCard protection and others. I see the "https" both when not signed in and after I sign in - so it seems to be blanket certificates across their whole site

Did you go to the page from a link somebody sent you or did you go to "Gofundme" directly and search for the page you were looking for. If the former it could be scam / replica page.