Three Russians, collectively, handed over about 8 million rubles to scammers while trying to invest in cryptocurrency. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.<\/p>\n
One of the victims<\/a>, a 41-year-old resident of Yoshkar-Ola, registered on a platform promising high earnings.<\/p>\n She transferred $38,965 to her Bitcoin wallet, and then another $3,000, to allegedly obtain the ability to withdraw the deposit’s interest. However the scammers stopped responding, and the Russian woman reported the matter to the police.<\/p>\n A criminal case has been opened on fraud charges. The damage was estimated at nearly 3.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n In the Bryansk region, victims of a similar scheme were two men, aged 40 and 60. They handed over “cryptocurrency brokers” 4 million and 390,600 rubles respectively. The police continue to investigate the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n Earlier in August, two Russian residents also lost more than 8 million rubles due to Bitcoin scammers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Russians collectively handed over about 8 million rubles to scammers while trying to invest in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49502,"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-49501","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":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501","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=49501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49503,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501\/revisions\/49503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}