{"id":54774,"date":"2021-12-16T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54774"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:04:13","slug":"sixteen-residents-of-irkutsk-oblast-gave-scammers-2-5-million-rubles-in-bid-to-start-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sixteen-residents-of-irkutsk-oblast-gave-scammers-2-5-million-rubles-in-bid-to-start-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen residents of Irkutsk Oblast gave scammers 2.5 million rubles in bid to start mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several residents of Irkutsk Oblast fell victim to scammers who duped them when buying equipment for cryptocurrency mining or renting premises for farms. Local <a href=\"https:\/\/38.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/27492918\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a> reported this.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, 16 local residents contacted authorities with similar statements \u2014 all hoping to start mining. Some sought to purchase equipment, others to sign leases on premises for mining farms.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims transferred more than 250 000 rubles to the scammers for mining equipment, but the criminals ceased contacting him, and he never received the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the victims lost more than 2.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>In Kaluga, authorities are seeking scammers who <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kaluga-resident-wired-5-million-rubles-to-two-fake-bitcoin-exchanges\">swindled 5 million rubles from a Russian citizen<\/a> under the guise of cryptocurrency investments.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several residents of Irkutsk Oblast fell victim to scammers who duped them when buying equipment for cryptocurrency mining or renting premises for farms. The local \u041c\u0412\u0414 reported this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54775,"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":[1154,1137,27],"class_list":["post-54774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54774","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=54774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54776,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54774\/revisions\/54776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}