{"id":30894,"date":"2020-10-29T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:32:37","slug":"stavropol-resident-handed-over-3-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-bid-to-buy-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/stavropol-resident-handed-over-3-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-bid-to-buy-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stavropol resident handed over 3 million rubles to scammers in bid to buy bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud of a particularly large scale based on a complaint from a Stavropol resident who transferred about 3 million rubles to the scammers in an attempt to invest in cryptocurrency.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/regnum.ru\/news\/3102283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regnum,<\/a> an unknown person who identified themselves as an employee of an investment company contacted the victim and proposed investing in bitcoins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stavropol resident transferred the funds to the perpetrators, but did not receive any profit or access to the promised cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police have started searching for those involved in the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, a resident of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-woman-borrowed-1-2-million-rubles-and-handed-them-to-cryptocurrency-scammers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">borrowed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1.2 million rubles and handed them to cryptocurrency scammers<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud of a particularly large scale based on a complaint from a Stavropol resident who transferred about 3 million rubles to the scammers in an attempt to invest in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[27],"class_list":["post-30894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"6","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894","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=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30895,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions\/30895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}