{"id":31810,"date":"2020-11-16T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31810"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:33:40","slug":"novotroitsk-resident-becomes-victim-of-scammers-in-bid-to-buy-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/novotroitsk-resident-becomes-victim-of-scammers-in-bid-to-buy-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Novotroitsk resident becomes victim of scammers in bid to buy cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Fraudsters lured a resident of Novotroitsk out of 154,000 rubles when he sought to invest in cryptocurrencies.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">As reported by a local <a href=\\\"https:\/\/time56.ru\/news\/lenta-novostey\/zhitel-novotroitska-kupil-u-moshennika-kriptovalyu\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">publication<\/span><\/a>, the man was contacted by phone and urged to make money on a crypto exchange. He was advised to register on a trading platform and deposit at least $1,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">To receive a bonus, he was also advised to purchase cryptocurrency in one of the Telegram channels. After the transaction, the promised assets never arrived in his account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Law enforcement authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in September, a resident of Abakan <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-woman-duped-by-scammer-selling-bitcoins-via-telegram\">lost<\/a> almost 100,000 rubles while trying to buy bitcoins via Telegram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 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>Fraudsters lured a resident of Novotroitsk out of 154,000 rubles when he sought to invest in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31811,"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-31810","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810","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=31810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31812,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810\/revisions\/31812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}