A 22-year-old resident of Vyksa became a victim of phone scammers who offered him a way to profit from cryptocurrency investments, according to the local police.<\/p>\n
About a month ago, an unknown caller contacted the resident and presented themselves as an employee of a financial company that provides ruble-to-bitcoin exchange services.<\/p>\n
The victim was sent a link to a site where the exchange allegedly took place. Over the course of a month, the victim transferred a total of 850 000 rubles to the “company’s” accounts.<\/p>\n
When the Russian tried to withdraw the amount, he was asked to pay a deposit. After that, the criminals stopped contacting him.<\/p>\n
The police opened a criminal case for fraud. Suspects face up to six years in prison.<\/p>\n
Earlier ForkLog reported that scammers swindled a Russian man out of almost 400 000 rubles on “bitcoin trading”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news feed, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 22-year-old Vyksa resident became a victim of phone scammers who offered him a way to profit from cryptocurrency investments, according to the local police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39546,"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-39545","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":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545","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=39545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39547,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions\/39547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}