{"id":45704,"date":"2021-07-07T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45704"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:31:21","slug":"twenty-residents-of-saratov-oblast-lost-about-a-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/twenty-residents-of-saratov-oblast-lost-about-a-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty residents of Saratov Oblast lost about a million rubles to cryptocurrency scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saratov Oblast Ministry of Internal Affairs said there has been a rise in fraud linked to investments in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement, unknown individuals contact victims via social networks, offering to invest in digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>One local resident transferred 100,000 rubles to the account specified by the criminals, after which they deleted the correspondence and ceased to respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cIn just the last few days, 20 residents of the region fell for such a ploy, handing over about a million rubles to the scammers,\u201d the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, an employee of a large company in Samara transferred to Bitcoin scammers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/employee-at-a-major-samara-company-transferred-1-3-million-rubles-to-bitcoin-scammers\">1.3 million rubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saratov Oblast Ministry of Internal Affairs reported an uptick in cryptocurrency investment fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45705,"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":[1154,27,465],"class_list":["post-45704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-russia","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704","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=45704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45706,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions\/45706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}