{"id":40601,"date":"2021-04-12T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40601"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:54:17","slug":"a-russian-man-received-a-car-battery-instead-of-mining-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/a-russian-man-received-a-car-battery-instead-of-mining-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian man received a car battery instead of mining equipment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amur region resident said he had fallen victim to scammers while buying cryptocurrency mining equipment, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/xn--80aalwqglfe.23.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/23819143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the man, he found an online advertisement for mining equipment priced at 53,000 rubles. He transferred the funds to the seller and received a package, but instead of a cryptocurrency mining device, he found an old car battery inside.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are conducting an investigation, with a decision on filing a criminal fraud case under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, a Moscow woman lost 6.7 million rubles buying a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-woman-loses-6-7-million-rubles-buying-a-laptop-for-mining-bitcoin\">\u00abBitcoin mining laptop\u00bb<\/a>.<\/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 news on cryptocurrencies, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amur region resident said he had fallen victim to scammers when buying cryptocurrency mining equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40602,"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":[1154,1137,27],"class_list":["post-40601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601","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=40601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40603,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions\/40603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}