The 63-year-old Russian from the city of Kirov became a victim of cryptocurrency scammers, having lost almost 3 million rubles. The man believed the scammers from the Internet, who offered to earn money on crypto trading.

The man told how at the end of July he entered into a correspondence through a messenger with a person who introduced himself as a financial consultant. The interlocutor proposed an easy and profitable way to earn money in cryptocurrency trading, promised guaranteed high income, and asked for 20% of the profit for his services.

The gullible investor agreed to the proposal of the unknown and followed his instructions. Kirovchanin registered on a fraudulent trading platform and transferred funds to the details indicated by the unknown. The man invested his own accumulations, and then he took part of the money on credit. The exact volume of deposits made amounted to 2,981,000 rubles.

To create the illusion of plausible trading transactions, a balance was displayed in the user’s personal account on the platform, which increased after each “successful transaction”. However, when the Kirov resident wanted to take his investments along with profit, the pseudo -consultants began to refuse him the withdrawal of funds, referring to sudden technical problems. The man spoke about his investment to his son, and realized that he was a victim of scammers. The law enforcement agencies where the victim turned, they opened a criminal case on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale and try to look for persons involved in the crime.

This is not the only case when the inhabitants of Kirov lost money due to crypto-mesh. In 2023, a local resident gave the scammers 2.63 million rubles, and some of the money was also taken on credit.