{"id":38250,"date":"2021-03-03T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T08:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38250"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:41:07","slug":"russian-loses-over-half-a-million-rubles-trying-to-buy-mining-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-loses-over-half-a-million-rubles-trying-to-buy-mining-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian loses over half a million rubles trying to buy mining equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">A local resident in the Vologda region turned to law enforcement after becoming a victim of a fraudster during the purchase of cryptocurrency mining equipment. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/35.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/23297252\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to the victim, he tried to buy mining devices online. A &#8216;seller&#8217; contacted him, to whom the victim transferred 330 000 rubles initially, and then another 254 000 rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">He never received the equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Authorities have opened a criminal case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in Mari El, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/resident-of-mari-el-republic-jailed-for-four-years-for-theft-of-mining-rig-worth-600000-rubles\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">received a four-year prison sentence<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> for fraud in a deal to sell mining equipment worth 600,000 rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <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 local resident in the Vologda region turned to the authorities after becoming a victim of a fraudster during the purchase of cryptocurrency mining equipment. The police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38251,"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-38250","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":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250","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=38250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38252,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions\/38252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}