{"id":39616,"date":"2021-03-26T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39616"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:34:10","slug":"kazan-pensioner-loses-918000-rubles-in-attempt-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kazan-pensioner-loses-918000-rubles-in-attempt-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazan pensioner loses 918,000 rubles in attempt to profit from cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pensioner from Kazan told law enforcement that she had fallen victim to scammers. They promised earnings from trading cryptocurrencies, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/prokazan.ru\/news\/view\/145276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The criminals contacted the victim by phone and promised her high returns from trading.<\/p>\n<p>To fund the investment, the victim took out a bank loan.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner granted the criminals remote access to her phone, after which they withdrew more than 900,000 rubles from her accounts and stopped contacting her.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Russians are frequently targeted by scammers promising help to earn money from cryptocurrencies. Earlier, Bitcoin scammers extorted <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-scammers-extorted-850000-rubles-from-a-russian-man-by-phone\">850,000 rubles over the phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kazan pensioner told authorities she was a victim of scammers who promised earnings from cryptocurrency trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39617,"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-39616","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":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39616","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=39616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39618,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39616\/revisions\/39618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}