{"id":54655,"date":"2021-12-14T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54655"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:29:47","slug":"kemerovo-resident-sells-his-home-and-hands-over-3-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-bid-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kemerovo-resident-sells-his-home-and-hands-over-3-million-rubles-to-scammers-in-bid-to-profit-from-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemerovo resident sells his home and hands over 3 million rubles to scammers in bid to profit from cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Kemerovo fell victim to scammers who pretended to offer investments in cryptocurrency and extorted 3 million rubles. The <a href=\"https:\/\/42.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/27453053\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the man invested 600,000 rubles ten years ago through an online brokerage firm in shares, but never received any profit.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, an unknown person contacted him, presenting himself as an employee of a company that helps victims of fraud. He claimed to be issuing compensation to the victim, but advised him to invest the money in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>To obtain &#8216;dividends&#8217;, the resident transferred about 800,000 rubles to the account specified by the attacker. After that, he was promised even greater profits from the rise in cryptocurrency prices.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the man sold the inherited house and travelled to Novosibirsk, where he handed over 2.2 million rubles to a courier. The latter promised the Kemerovo resident that a company specialist would contact him soon, but this did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>The police began an investigation and opened a criminal case for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a resident of Salekhard fell victim to scammers who promised her earnings on a cryptocurrency exchange and lost <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/salekhard-pensioner-loses-more-than-7-million-rubles-on-bitcoin-investments\">more than 7 million rubles<\/a>.<\/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, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Kemerovo fell victim to scammers posing as cryptocurrency investors who extorted 3 million rubles. The police reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54656,"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-54655","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":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54655","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=54655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54657,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54655\/revisions\/54657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}