The World Cup in Qatar will kick off on November 20.
The event also arouses the interest of cybercriminals, who seek to make money through online scam campaigns.
Experts from security company Kaspersky have analyzed phishing websites linked to the sports event, identifying numerous portals designed to steal users' identification and banking data, fake pages offering everything from tickets to merchandising, match streaming and prizes in Nft, digital art certified via blockchain.
"Major sporting events always attract the attention of cybercriminals - commented Olga Svistunova, Security Expert at Kaspersky - But with this World Cup, cybercriminals have also become very creative. We urge users to pay attention when they receive offers that seem too good to be true and carefully check the validity of the messages received".
Kaspersky has discovered numerous phishing pages offering to buy match tickets.
For a World Cup that sells tickets only in digital format, the risk of being misled is very high.
Another way to steal data is through fake merchandise stores.
Although the offer of shirts of one's favorite team,
To protect yourself from these attacks, Kaspersky recommends checking links in emails before clicking them, hovering over them to display the correct address and checking for spelling errors or other irregularities.
The same goes for strange phrases or unusual syntax, resulting from the email being localized multiple times through a translator.