{"id":42810,"date":"2021-05-20T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42810"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:52:20","slug":"crypto-investment-consultant-duped-couple-out-of-more-than-4-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/crypto-investment-consultant-duped-couple-out-of-more-than-4-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto &#8216;investment consultant&#8217; duped couple out of more than 4 million rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Sakhalin have opened a criminal case into large-scale fraud following a local resident&#8217;s loss of more than 4 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/65.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/24293746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/65.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/24293746\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>, at the end of March a &#8216;cryptocurrency investment consultant&#8217; contacted the applicant and his wife by phone and offered his services for a fee of 10% of the profits.<\/p>\n<p>The victim made several transfers to the scammers&#8217; wallets \u2014 totaling more than 4 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of April the couple tried to withdraw the money to their cards, but they received refusals on various pretexts. They then turned to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a resident of Primorsky Krai became a victim of scammers while trying to acquire cryptocurrency and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/scammers-dupe-russian-woman-out-of-3-million-rubles-in-a-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme\">lost 3 million rubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow 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 analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakhalin law enforcement authorities have opened a criminal case into large-scale fraud following a local resident&#8217;s loss of over 4 million rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42811,"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-42810","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\/42810","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=42810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42812,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42810\/revisions\/42812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}