{"id":52194,"date":"2021-11-02T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52194"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:02:14","slug":"yakutian-woman-loses-6-5-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-crypto-trading-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/yakutian-woman-loses-6-5-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-crypto-trading-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakutian woman loses 6.5 million rubles to scammers in crypto-trading scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of the village of Nizhny Kuranyakh became a victim of scammers who, posing as managers of an investment platform for cryptocurrency trading, defrauded her of almost 6.5 million rubles. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/14.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/26742090\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After speaking with a man named Vasily Petrov, who presented himself as a platform manager, she installed an app purportedly to track her cryptocurrency transactions and a Qiwi wallet, to which she transferred funds.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the woman&#8217;s accounts on the platform were blocked, and unlocking them required payment. The victim borrowed 1.3 million rubles from relatives, but she never managed to regain access to the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>After realizing she had fallen victim to scammers, she reported the case to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Kalmykia, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-kalmykia-criminals-stole-more-than-1-4-million-rubles-from-a-bitcoin-investor\">more than 1.4 million rubles<\/a> were extorted from a resident under the guise of providing brokerage services on a \u201ccryptocurrency exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read 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 Yakutian woman was defrauded of about 6.5 million rubles by scammers posing as managers of a cryptocurrency trading platform, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52195,"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-52194","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52194","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=52194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52196,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52194\/revisions\/52196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}