{"id":48371,"date":"2021-08-27T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48371"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:52:42","slug":"russian-man-loses-1-2-million-rubles-in-a-bitcoin-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-man-loses-1-2-million-rubles-in-a-bitcoin-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man loses 1.2 million rubles in a Bitcoin scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Borovichi in the Novgorod region fell victim to a fake cryptocurrency exchange run by criminals, <a href=\"https:\/\/53.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\/news\/window\/25636765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by the local police.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, the victim saw an advertisement offering the chance to earn extra income from investing in digital assets. After registering on the site, a platform &#8216;consultant&#8217; contacted him and offered help in carrying out financial operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the fraudster&#8217;s instructions, the victim transferred various amounts to the specified accounts over nearly three months, from 96,000 to 380,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>When the Borovichi resident attempted to withdraw assets into fiat, the intermediary persuaded him to prepay taxes and insurance amounting to 260,000 rubles, after which he stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the victim transferred about 1.2 million rubles to the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Bank of Russia warned Russians about <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-warns-about-cryptocurrency-pyramids-targeting-pensioners\">cryptocurrency pyramids aimed at retirees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Borovichi in the Novgorod region fell victim to a fake cryptocurrency exchange run by criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48372,"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":[1166,1154,27],"class_list":["post-48371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48371","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=48371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48373,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48371\/revisions\/48373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}