{"id":53363,"date":"2021-11-23T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53363"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:49:12","slug":"yakutsk-resident-loses-3-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-investment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/yakutsk-resident-loses-3-million-rubles-to-cryptocurrency-investment-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakutsk resident loses 3 million rubles to cryptocurrency investment scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old resident of Yakutsk fell victim to fraudulent brokers who offered him a way to earn from cryptocurrencies. The local Ministry of Internal Affairs <a href=\\\"https:\/\/14.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\\\">reports<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>The victim saw an advertisement for an investment campaign on social media and left his number on the site. Soon a woman called him, introducing herself as an employee of the company. She said that earnings come from successful cryptocurrency buy-sell trades.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the &#8216;investor&#8217; transferred 3.1 million rubles to the scammers&#8217; account.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian realized he was dealing with scammers when an &#8217;employee of the financial department&#8217; informed him of a problem with withdrawing funds due to &#8216;insufficient card turnover&#8217; and asked for more money.<\/p>\n<p>The police opened a criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, a Yakutsk resident <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/yakutsk-resident-loses-over-200000-rubles-trying-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies\">lost more than 200,000 rubles<\/a> attempting to invest in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old resident of Yakutsk fell victim to fraudulent brokers who offered him a way to earn from cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53364,"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-53363","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":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53363","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=53363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53365,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53363\/revisions\/53365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}