{"id":34789,"date":"2021-01-15T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34789"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:12:09","slug":"two-residents-of-buryatia-lose-3-million-rubles-in-bid-to-profit-from-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/two-residents-of-buryatia-lose-3-million-rubles-in-bid-to-profit-from-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Two residents of Buryatia lose 3 million rubles in bid to profit from Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/03.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that two people were victims of criminals who lost a total of 3 million rubles in an attempt to profit from cryptocurrency trading.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 44-year-old resident of Zaigraevsky District lost 1.4 million rubles, of which 1.1 million was borrowed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the moment the fraudulent actions were committed until the day of reporting to the police, almost six months had passed. Throughout this time the victim believed that he was operating in the financial markets and was confident of earning a return,\u201d the Ministry noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A resident of Severobaykalsk lost 1.6 million rubles in a month, which were also borrowed funds. She tried to profit from Bitcoin trading on an online &#8220;investment platform&#8221; she found on the internet, according to law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier reports indicated a victim of a similar scam from Khakassia. The victim <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/khakassia-resident-defrauded-of-500000-rubles-in-cryptocurrency-earnings-scheme\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lost more than 500,000 rubles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/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>The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia said that two people were victims of criminals who lost a total of 3 million rubles in an attempt to profit from cryptocurrency trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-34789","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":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789","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=34789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34791,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789\/revisions\/34791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}