Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Russian e-commerce (e-commerce) market in 2020 grew by 44% compared to 2019, experts say.
However, along with the influx of users to electronic platforms, the number of fraudsters working on the Internet has also increased.
According to Tinkoff experts, 60% of successful fraudulent attacks in 2020 (compared to 25% a year earlier) were carried out according to the standard scenario of buying or selling goods on the Internet.
In this context, we are talking about both real marketplace sites and fake sites.
“The average amount that a buyer lost in 2020, believing a false seller, was 10 thousand rubles, while sellers, caught by a fraudulent buyer, lost an average of 6 thousand rubles,” analysts said.
For example, phishing has become one of the most popular types of online fraud - making copies of well-known websites and payment forms, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Last year, the company was able to detect over 7.4 thousand such fraudulent resources.
“In 2020, Kaspersky Lab blocked more than 80 million attempts to switch users to various phishing resources, and about a third of them (27 million) were related to so-called scam resources (fraudulent mailings and announcements of“ promotions ”or“ contests ” . -
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The experts also gave netizens advice on how not to fall for the tricks of scammers.
In particular, they offered to regularly update downloaded applications, create complex passwords for their accounts, check site names, be skeptical about "generous" offers, and not follow links that do not inspire confidence.
Earlier, a poll conducted by the Center for Sociological Research of the ANO Dialogue showed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Russians began to encounter Internet fraud more often.