Vaquinha do Corinthians: scam sites appear at the top of Google; see how to avoid

Corinthians start at the end of 2024 online fundraising campaign with fans to help the club pay off its debt to Caixa Econômica Federal. The act has become hugely popular on social media, but its fame has also fallen prey to virtual scams.

A number of fraudulent websites have already been detected spoofing the original campaign page and attempting to trick fans into making transfers to criminals. To make things worse, Even Google shows one of these scams at the top of its search resultsThis can increase the chances of scammers creating new victims.

Some of these pages have already been removed with the help of the club and fans, but not all threats have been contained and Corinthians fans need to be careful when participating.

What is Corinthians crowdfunding?

Corinthians’ campaign with fans is a way to speed up the payment of the club’s debt incurred in one season. Financing with Caixa for the construction of the Neo Química Arena stadium. Right now, this pending issuance is around R$710 million and the team’s goal is to collect as close to that total as possible.

Anyone can join With a donation starting from R$ 10 and no maximum value limit. The only way to donate via Pixusing a key to the official campaign platform and whoever joins get a contribution certificateas well as competing in weekly ticket giveaways. To find out more, just access the website doearenacorinthians.com.br.

According to the official fundraising website, donations can be made for a period of approximately six months. If the target is not achieved, the club will try to negotiate with the bank or at least write off most of the debt.

At the time this article was published, Corinthians has already raised more than R$24 million — with even celebrity fans like Federal Supreme Court (STF) minister Alexandre de Moraes in attendance.

Scams and how to protect yourself

While donations were organized by Pix, transfers began to be made to other keys that were not from the official campaign platform on social media. In some more elaborate scams, Even the cat’s official website was copied.

When searching for terms like “Doecorinthians” and derivatives on Google, Seeker It even shows fake websites at the top of the rankingslike TecMundo Proven by tests conducted on the platform.

According to Uappi, the company that created the website and manages the action, More than 30 fake websites trying to divert donation money detected on the first day of crowdfunding alone. Some of these pages have already been removed, thanks to a security company hired to monitor networks, but others continue to work.

By participating in the campaign, Beware of variants without official website doearenacorinthians.com.br. Please read the URL of the page you are visiting carefully and to ensure your security, Search for the address through official communication channels the club itself.

These pages copy the same appearance and even the official content of the cat, but they have some flaws that careful eyes identify as suspicious. They do not contain important information, such as the name of some donors and real-time updatesFor example.

Finally check If the generated Pix key matches the campaign and does not redirect you to an individual account.