A 29-year-old resident of Saratov fell victim to scammers who posted an advertisement for the sale of GPUs for cryptocurrency mining. The local prosecutor’s office said.<\/p>\n
While seeking components for a mining rig, the victim contacted a ‘manager of an online store.’ He was given bank account details for payment.<\/p>\n
The Saratov resident transferred almost 570,000 rubles to the ‘seller,’ but did not receive the GPUs.<\/p>\n
Police opened a criminal case into fraud.<\/p>\n
Earlier ForkLog reported that, amid the shortage of ASIC miners, a fraudulent scheme aimed at buyers of mining devices<\/a> for Bitcoin mining from Bitmain circulated online.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 29-year-old resident of Saratov fell victim to scammers who posted an advertisement for selling GPUs for cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41427,"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-41426","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":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41426","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=41426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41428,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41426\/revisions\/41428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}