{"id":48489,"date":"2021-08-30T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48489"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:28:59","slug":"two-russian-women-lose-more-than-8-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/two-russian-women-lose-more-than-8-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Russian women lose more than 8 million rubles to cryptocurrency scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old resident of Voronezh has become a victim of fraudsters who promised her earnings from trading cryptocurrencies. This was reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/36.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/25691409\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the victim, she received a message about the possibility of earning on a certain cryptocurrency exchange in one of the messaging apps. A &#8216;personal manager&#8217; contacted her, promising 74% annually.<\/p>\n<p>The woman took out a bank loan of 2.1 million rubles and transferred it to their accounts of the criminals. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abA few days ago, a fraudster contacted her, saying that the cryptocurrency they had invested in had been blocked, but they could try to recoup in another currency. The victim, realising she had fallen for a scam, turned to the police\u00bb, \u2014 \u043e\u0442\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u041c\u0412\u0414.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Authorities have opened a criminal case, and an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Another victim of cryptocurrency scammers was a resident of Orsk, according to local media. Unknown individuals, presenting themselves as employees of a financial institution, persuaded her to start trading on a platform. After the woman deposited 15,000 rubles, more than 202 BTC allegedly appeared on her account.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, she took out a loan of 286,000 rubles, and also borrowed more than 6 million from her parents and husband. As a result, she transferred over 6.5 million rubles to the criminals&#8217; account, but later realised that she had fallen victim to deception.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a resident of Novgorod Oblast <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-man-loses-1-2-million-rubles-in-a-bitcoin-scam\">lost 1.2 million rubles<\/a> due to a fake cryptocurrency exchange operated by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Follow 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, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old woman from Voronezh was swindled by criminals who promised profits from cryptocurrency trading, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48490,"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-48489","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":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489","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=48489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48491,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions\/48491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}