{"id":54438,"date":"2021-12-10T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54438"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:26:57","slug":"kaluga-resident-wired-5-million-rubles-to-two-fake-bitcoin-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kaluga-resident-wired-5-million-rubles-to-two-fake-bitcoin-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaluga resident wired 5 million rubles to two fake Bitcoin exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kaluga, police are seeking scammers who lured a Russian citizen out of 5 million rubles under the guise of cryptocurrency investments. The information was <a href=\"https:\/\/40.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a> in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the victim met a woman online who persuaded him to register on the sites of two exchanges and to deposit funds into his personal account.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaluga resident borrowed the money from acquaintances and also took out a loan to finance the transactions.<\/p>\n<p>When the amount of the investment exceeded 5 million rubles, he wanted to cash out the virtual funds, but a commission was charged for the operation. After paying it as well, the victim discovered that the site was blocked. The woman stopped getting in touch with him.<\/p>\n<p>The police opened a criminal case for fraud on a particularly large scale.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/salekhard-pensioner-loses-more-than-7-million-rubles-on-bitcoin-investments\">more than 7 million rubles on &#8220;Bitcoin investments&#8221;<\/a> were lost by a pensioner from Salekhard.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kaluga, police are searching for scammers who lured a Russian citizen out of 5 million rubles under the guise of cryptocurrency investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54439,"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-54438","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\/54438","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=54438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54440,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54438\/revisions\/54440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}