A 42-year-old resident of Cheboksary became a victim of scammers who offered her a way to make money from cryptocurrency, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chuvash Republic.<\/p>\n
In 2019 and 2020, the victim transferred a total of 407,000 rubles to the accounts of two fictitious brokerage firms, allegedly engaged in cryptocurrency trading. She could not recover the money.<\/p>\n
In late February 2021, an unknown man contacted her, promising to help recover the funds. For his services, he demanded a fee equal to 10% of the amount withdrawn.<\/p>\n
At the financier’s request, the Russian woman installed a computer program and transferred 15,000 rubles in two transactions to the brokerage company’s account.<\/p>\n
When the amount in her account allegedly exceeded 600,000 rubles, the fraudster demanded additional investments. To this end, the victim took out a bank loan of 310,000 rubles and borrowed 250,000 rubles from her mother. In total, she transferred 564,000 rubles to the fraudulent broker.<\/p>\n
Only after this did the Russian woman find information about the company online and realise that she had been scammed.<\/p>\n
The police opened an investigation into fraud.<\/p>\n
Earlier, ForkLog reported that a resident of the Sverdlovsk region, who believed in a similar scheme, lost 800,000 rubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n