{"id":39930,"date":"2021-04-01T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39930"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:52:33","slug":"crypto-scammers-fleece-kaliningrad-resident-of-1-3-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/crypto-scammers-fleece-kaliningrad-resident-of-1-3-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto scammers fleece Kaliningrad resident of 1.3 million rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaliningrad resident became a victim of criminals who promised her earnings from cryptocurrency, according to the local <a href=\"https:\/\/39.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/23667519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She came across an advertisement on Instagram about earnings under the guise of a real bank.<\/p>\n<p>The victim clicked the link; after a while a &#8216;manager&#8217; who allegedly trained her to invest in cryptocurrencies contacted her. The Kaliningrad resident registered on the so-called &#8216;broker platform,&#8217; where she bought cryptocurrency, transferring her money to electronic wallets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00ab\u201dThe &#8216;broker platform&#8217; faithfully plotted charts of cryptocurrency price declines and rises, showed how much money was on the Kaliningrad resident&#8217;s account, the &#8216;forecast&#8217; and the expected profit\u00bb, \u2014 noted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Subsequently the woman took out a loan and transferred the money to the accounts she was given. When she wanted to withdraw funds, the manager stopped responding. In total the Kaliningrad resident lost about 1.3 million rubles, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Novokuznetsk, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/novokuznetsk-man-loses-850000-rubles-in-bid-to-profit-from-cryptocurrency\">\u043f\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0440\u044f\u043b 850 000 \u0440\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0435\u0439<\/a> in an attempt to earn money from cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaliningrad resident became a victim of criminals who promised her earnings from cryptocurrency, according to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39931,"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-39930","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":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930","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=39930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39932,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930\/revisions\/39932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}