{"id":35045,"date":"2021-01-20T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35045"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:28:01","slug":"russian-man-duped-in-attempt-to-buy-a-mining-rig-to-heat-his-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-man-duped-in-attempt-to-buy-a-mining-rig-to-heat-his-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man duped in attempt to buy a mining rig to heat his garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">An Irkutsk Oblast resident fell victim to criminals attempting to purchase cryptocurrency mining equipment. According to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/38.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">He intended to use the equipment not only for mining digital assets but also to heat his garage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The victim contacted a resident of Omsk who allegedly was selling miners via a messaging group. The latter provided photos of the invoice and the goods, with logos of the delivery service in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">After the victim transferred 45,000 rubles, the chat in the messenger was deleted, and the &#8216;seller&#8217; ceased to respond. According to the \u041c\u0412\u0414, the invoice was fake, and the tracking number did not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Authorities have opened a criminal case into fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in Saint Petersburg, due to mining equipment, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/office-building-in-st-petersburg-catches-fire-due-to-cryptocurrency-mining-equipment\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">an office building caught fire<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/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 coverage of the news, <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>A resident of Irkutsk Oblast fell victim to scammers while trying to purchase cryptocurrency mining equipment. According to \u041c\u0412\u0414.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35046,"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":[1154,1137,27],"class_list":["post-35045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045","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=35045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35047,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045\/revisions\/35047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}