Males more likely to fall for online fraud

The number of male victims of Internet fraud was nearly double that of females last year while conmen were likely to get more money from female Web users on an individual basis, a report on Thursday revealed.

About 64 percent of the fraud victims were male in 2013, according to Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd, a Beijing-based Internet security company.

It noted that although the number of female online shoppers greatly outnumbers their male counterparts, females tend to make payments on a few well-known e-commerce websites while male shoppers were more adventurous about purchasing online.