A 41-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of scamming at least 10 ex-boyfriends in Santa Catarina. According to the investigations, Ivanete Marcia Moss de Conto gained their trust and, by saying that she was in financial difficulty, obtained money from the victims. The combined losses could reach R$2.5 million, according to the Public Ministry.
The arrest took place on Friday (6) in Descanso, in the west of the state. On the same day, she was reported for the first crime against an ex-partner, in Belmonte (SC).
When contacted, the defense said that the case deals with a relationship between adults that began to be identified as a crime after it ended.
The note from lawyers Brendo Luiz de Pizzol Barroso, Marcela Paludo Chaise and Milena Maria Arcari Ribeiro also mentioned that the arrest was ordered without prior conviction and that the woman is the mother of an 11-year-old girl, responsible for a non-violent crime.
In addition to the investigation in Belmonte, the MP stated that she is being investigated for similar scams against nine ex-boyfriends who live in São José do Cedro, Iporã do Oeste, Santa Helena, São João do Oeste and São Miguel do Oeste.
The preventive detention occurred at the request of the MP. According to prosecutor Saraah Seben Fiamoncini, the investigated approached the men via social media and, after gaining their trust, claimed to have urgent debts or risk of losing assets to arouse compassion.
With this, he convinced victims to make bank transfers, take out loans, deliver checks, provide cards, provide cash and even transfer assets to third party accounts, which are also investigated.
Three other people are being investigated for helping Ivanete in the scams. According to the police, in July 2025, the group joined forces with the aim of committing fraud.
According to the MP, the group's dynamics operated with division of tasks: Ivanete was responsible for approaching the victim, starting an emotional relationship and gaining his trust; other suspects provided bank accounts to receive, move and transfer the amounts.
In the case narrated in the complaint, between July 14 and 16, 2025, in Belmonte, the group obtained R$200,000 from a man Ivanete met online. After forming a bond with the victim, she allegedly claimed to be experiencing financial difficulties and asked for money to pay off an apartment, promising to reimburse the amount or transfer half of the property to the man.
The victim then handed over R$5,000 in cash to the woman and made transfers totaling R$195,000 to the account of one of the suspects, who then spread the amount among the accounts of the other suspects.
g1 contacted the Court of Justice to find out if the complaint had been received by the body and was awaiting a response until the last update of the text.
While the relationship lasted, no one talked about crime. All it took was for the relationship to end for it to turn into a scam. What was experienced between adults does not become a police case after the end, and that is what Ivanete Marcia Moss de Conto's defense will prove in the process, and not in the headlines.
What we see so far is an early condemnation. The complaint was received on November 6th and, on the same day, Ivanete was already arrested, without having presented a line of defense and without a single witness being heard in court. She has no convictions. To justify the arrest, inquiries and police reports that are still being investigated were added: one-part versions, which no one confronted. This is not proof, it is an accusation. And arresting based on accusation is reversing the logic of the criminal process.
Worse: for days, the defense could not know why their client was in prison. The files were kept under such strict secrecy that not even the judge on duty could open them, while the police had access to the material and reports were already circulating. The only party that was unaware of the reasons for the arrest was precisely the person arrested. The defense had to appeal to guarantee an elementary right.
Ivanete is the mother of an 11-year-old girl and is responsible for crimes without violence or serious threat. For these cases, article 318-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Supreme Court, in collective Habeas Corpus 143.641, establish house arrest as a rule, because the child is the one who pays for the mother's imprisonment. Even so, Ivanete was taken to the Chapecó Women's Prison, away from her daughter. The State mobilized maximum secrecy, judicial duty and prison against a woman accused of a non-violent crime, and denied her daughter what the law guarantees.
The defense has already offered everything: electronic monitoring, prohibition of contact with victims and witnesses and any guarantee that Justice requires. The requests are at the Court of Justice of Santa Catarina and with the judge of the case. The defense does not ask for a favor; demands that the law be enforced, and will not stop until that happens.
Out of respect for judicial secrecy, we will not comment on the evidence. But we will not accept Ivanete being condemned before trial, nor a child paying for it.
