{"id":47260,"date":"2021-08-05T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47260"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:24:03","slug":"cryptocurrency-scammers-stole-3-6-million-rubles-from-residents-of-volgograd-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-scammers-stole-3-6-million-rubles-from-residents-of-volgograd-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency scammers stole 3.6 million rubles from residents of Volgograd region"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Volgograd region police warned<\/a> of an uptick in scammers offering citizens a way to profit from cryptocurrency investments.<\/p>\n

The perpetrators operate under a traditional scheme: they urge victims to create a personal account on a site under their control and transfer a small amount to a wallet.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the funds disappear from the account, the broker’s phone becomes unavailable, and the page hosting the personal account is blocked.<\/p>\n

Over the past several months, the total loss from the scammers’ activities has amounted to at least 3.6 million rubles.<\/p>\n

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“The difficulty in solving these crimes lies in the fact that the servers and websites are usually located abroad, as is the majority of fraudulent brokers. The multi-tiered nature of ‘exchange pyramids’ makes locating those involved virtually an intractable task,” the local police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Earlier, a resident of Kemerovo turned to the police, from whom 700,000 rubles<\/a> were stolen in a deal to sell mining equipment.<\/p>\n

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