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title: Fraud in the digital goods sector – infographic
date: 2024-09-24T09:30:00+01:00
author: Nikoleta Dimitriou
canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/blog/digital-goods-fraud-2024"
section: Blog
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# Fraud in the digital goods sector – infographic

Worth upwards of $135 billion, the digital products and services sector is booming – but fraudsters have taken notice.

24 September 2024

![Fraud in the digital goods sector – infographic](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_blogSmall/252259/328-FS24-Retail-Infographic-Blog-885-x-505-%E2%80%93-1-1.webp)

**We're sharing new findings from Ravelin's comprehensive [Fraud & Payments Survey 2024](https://pages.ravelin.com/fraud-trends-2024-report) pertaining to the digital goods sector and how it's affected by fraud. This includes one-off sales of digital products, as well as subscriptions.**

It's a breakdown of how the fraud landscape looks like for this key part of the online economy, the various ways in which companies are affected, and expectations about how digital products fraud and abuse will evolve in the years to come.

For more information, including our methodology and additional data, please download our full 2024 survey [here](https://pages.ravelin.com/fraud-trends-2024-report) or [get in touch with the team](https://www.ravelin.com/contact-us).

[![digital goods fraud stats and data](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/328-FS24-Digital-goods-Infographic-2.webp)](https://pages.ravelin.com/fraud-trends-2024-report)

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Nikoleta DimitriouSenior Content Manager

With a marketing career focused on technology, Nikoleta has worked for the data science, e-learning, and fraud industries, among others. Since 2023…

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