Research conducted by OLX, the popular online buying and selling platform, shows that fraud in online purchases during Black Friday week in 2024 led to an estimated loss of R$254,000 to residents of Rio de Janeiro.
The main scams were false payment (50%), account hijacking (33%), and false advertising (17%). Mobile phones and smartphones were the items with the highest incidences of fraud (49%).
Across the country, it is estimated that Brazilians lost to digital scams in the same period amounted to R$1.9 million.