{"id":26598,"date":"2020-07-29T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26598"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:19:40","slug":"russian-woman-loses-over-850000-rubles-in-a-bitcoin-purchase-via-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-woman-loses-over-850000-rubles-in-a-bitcoin-purchase-via-messaging-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian woman loses over 850,000 rubles in a Bitcoin purchase via messaging app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals <a href=\\\"https:\/\/24.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\/news\/item\/20730362\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">\u043e\u0431\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0438<\/a> a resident of Norilsk, offering to buy her Bitcoin for 856,000 rubles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The victim spoke with the &#8216;cryptocurrency seller&#8217; via a messaging app. He convinced her that the sustained rise in Bitcoin makes such an investment highly profitable.<\/p>\n<p>The parties agreed to sell 1.3 BTC. However, when the Russian woman transferred the required amount to the seller&#8217;s card, the perpetrator stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p>The Norilsk police have opened a criminal investigation into fraud, with up to six years in prison for those found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, scammers duped more than 160,000 rubles from a Krasnodar Krai resident under the guise of investing in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor from Saint Petersburg <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/saint-petersburg-doctor-loses-800000-rubles-in-bid-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies\">lost<\/a> 800,000 rubles on investments in the BTC GENERATION platform.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals deceived a resident of Norilsk by offering to buy her Bitcoin for 856,000 rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-26598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26600,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598\/revisions\/26600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}