{"id":85001,"date":"2023-09-26T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85001"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:43:01","slug":"russian-man-earned-5-2-million-rubles-from-fake-sale-of-mining-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-man-earned-5-2-million-rubles-from-fake-sale-of-mining-gpus\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man earned 5.2 million rubles from fake sale of mining GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case has been sent to the court in Yaroslavl Oblast against a 42-year-old resident of the Moscow region, who is accused of fraud totaling 5.2 million rubles in cryptocurrency. The information was reported by the local <a href=\\\"https:\/\/76.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/42013934\\\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a> interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the defendant between 2017 and 2022 bought accounts with positive reviews on a free classifieds site and, through them, allegedly sold GPUs for mining. The seller demanded full prepayment in cryptocurrency, but did not intend to supply the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 he persuaded a resident of Irkutsk to buy 140 GPUs from him for more than 1.5 million rubles. Under a similar scheme, residents of Voronezh and Omsk were defrauded for a total of 3.4 million rubles. Five more fraud cases were identified involving residents of Yaroslavl, Voronezh and Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>The total damage across eight episodes amounted to 5.2 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was detained in the Moscow Region and remanded in custody in Yaroslavl Oblast pending the court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/equipment-worth-22-million-rubles-stolen-from-mining-hotel-in-chelyabinsk\">equipment worth 22 million rubles<\/a> was stolen from a mining hotel in Chelyabinsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case has been sent to the court in Yaroslavl Oblast against a 42-year-old resident of the Moscow region, who is accused of fraud totaling 5.2 million rubles in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85002,"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-85001","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85001","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=85001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85003,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85001\/revisions\/85003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}