{"id":36579,"date":"2021-02-17T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36579"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:02:44","slug":"uzbekistan-resident-loses-over-1-million-rubles-hoping-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/uzbekistan-resident-loses-over-1-million-rubles-hoping-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan resident loses over 1 million rubles hoping to profit from cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A resident of Uzbekistan became a victim of a fraudster who promised help in buying cryptocurrencies. The information is reported by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tergov.uz\/ru\/lead\/152-mln-sum-radi-virtualnyh-deneg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigative Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to law enforcement, the suspect \u201cgained the victim\u2019s trust\u201d by talking about the possibility of profit through cryptocurrencies. The victim handed over 152 million Uzbek sums (more than 1 million rubles at the rate at the time of writing).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The attacker spent the money on his own needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud in a large-scale amount. The investigation continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, a resident of Volgograd also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/volgograd-resident-loses-nearly-1-million-rubles-in-bitcoin-investment-scam\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">became a victim of scammers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who promised her earnings from cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Uzbekistan became a victim of an attacker who promised help in buying cryptocurrencies. The information was provided by the Investigative Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36580,"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":[1154,1206],"class_list":["post-36579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-uzbekistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579","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=36579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36581,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions\/36581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}