{"id":51203,"date":"2021-10-14T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51203"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:23:38","slug":"lipetsk-woman-handed-over-more-than-3-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/lipetsk-woman-handed-over-more-than-3-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipetsk woman handed over more than 3 million rubles to cryptocurrency scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement authorities in Lipetsk region have opened a criminal case into fraud in a particularly large amount, following a local resident&#8217;s complaint.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/vesti-lipetsk.ru\/novosti\/proisshestviya\/lipchanka-hotela-zarabotat-na-kriptovalyute-i-poteryala-tri-milliona\/\">local media<\/a>, the woman became a victim of scammers who promised her high returns from investments in cryptocurrency via the platform &#8220;Trefinico.com&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From April to July, she transferred more than 3 million rubles to the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the Finiko pyramid scheme. By independent estimates, the total loss <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/finiko-pyramid-suspends-payouts-and-demands-users-personal-data\">exceeds $4 billion<\/a>. The number of victims is at least 850,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement authorities in Lipetsk region have opened a criminal case into fraud in a particularly large amount, following a local resident&#8217;s complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51204,"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-51203","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":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51203","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=51203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51205,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51203\/revisions\/51205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}