Southeast region had 800 million online scams in the first half of the year

In the first six months of 2024, the Southeast Region recorded R$764.7 million in attempted fraud in e-commerce, according to the ClearSale Fraud Map, a company that works with fraud prevention. There were more than 600 thousand attempted scams, making the Southeast Region account for 1.6% of the 1 million cases that occurred this year.

On average, scammers try to use R$1,129 reais to commit scams. This amount was estimated between January 1st and June 30th. The amounts accounted for, whether in confirmed or unconfirmed frauds, is R$67.98 million, representing a decrease of 10.7% compared to the same cycle for the first months of the previous year.

Ranking of states most affected by coups

In fourth place in the ranking of states that suffered the most attempted scams is Espírito Santo, which received 1.2 million requests, 1.5% of which were fraud claims, a total value of R$698.8 million and an average ticket of R$1,337. Minas Gerais was almost tied, with 1.7% of attempted scams, R$4.1 billion, an average value of R$1,189 and 7.7 million scam requests.

Rio de Janeiro also had the same number of scam requests as Minas Gerais, but R$4.2 billion in value, an average ticket of R$1,371, but they were harassed more often; Rio residents were tormented by scammers in about 2.1% of cases. São Paulo was the state that suffered the most financial losses due to scams and attempted scams, with R$13.4 billion in requests, 26.2 million attempts and an average ticket of R$1,027.

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The biggest victims were women and the millennial generation

People born in the millennial generation, that is, those born between 1981 and 1996, lost around R$9.3 billion. Women were the ones who suffered the most from these scams and attempted scams. Many of these attempted scams come from theft of data, passwords and accounts, and thus criminals are able to access information to commit fraud using credit cards. ClearSale recommends that Internet users create stronger passwords and be careful with malicious links referring to promotions considered unmissable with prices below market value.

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