{"id":41789,"date":"2021-05-03T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41789"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:20:36","slug":"russian-loses-1-5-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-loses-1-5-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian loses 1.5 million rubles to cryptocurrency scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Stavropol resident handed over 1.5 million rubles to a cryptocurrency scammer, according to the local police.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown caller, who introduced himself as a financial analyst, urged him to profit from cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>He persuaded the Russian to make two transfers to accounts he named.<\/p>\n<p>The Stavropol resident made the transfers, but did not receive the digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>The police are seeking the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that a resident of Kursk Oblast <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-woman-loses-1-1-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-trading-scam\">lost more than a million rubles on a fraudulent site<\/a>, allegedly engaged in cryptocurrency trading.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Stavropol resident handed over 1.5 million rubles to a cryptocurrency scammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41790,"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-41789","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":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41789","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=41789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41791,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41789\/revisions\/41791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}