{"id":40301,"date":"2021-04-07T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40301"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:32:03","slug":"sakhalin-resident-loses-2-5-million-rubles-in-a-fake-exchange-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sakhalin-resident-loses-2-5-million-rubles-in-a-fake-exchange-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakhalin resident loses 2.5 million rubles in a fake-exchange scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local resident of Sakhalin Oblast appealed to the region&#8217;s Ministry of Internal Affairs after falling victim to scammers in an attempt to profit from trading on an exchange.<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement authorities, a man registered on a &#8216;dubious site&#8217;, after which an unknown person contacted him. He said that to begin trading, he needed to deposit $130 into the account.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the victim took out a loan at a bank, converted the money into cryptocurrency and deposited it on the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Once he had replenished the account to nearly 2.5 million rubles, the site became inaccessible and the scammers seized his funds, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, scammers extorted <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-scammers-fleece-kaliningrad-resident-of-1-3-million-rubles\">1.3 million rubles<\/a> from a Kaliningrad woman, promising her earnings from cryptocurrencies.<\/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 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local resident of Sakhalin Oblast appealed to the region&#8217;s Ministry of Internal Affairs after becoming a victim of scammers in an attempt to profit from trading on the exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40302,"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-40301","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\/40301","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=40301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40303,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions\/40303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}