A 46-year-old man from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug fell for an advertisement for a company that offered investments and earnings using cryptocurrencies.
A resident of Kogalym installed a mobile application, opened an account and an electronic wallet. After that, he received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as the manager of the company. He explained the algorithm of actions and emphasized: the more the Kogalymian invests, the greater the profit will be.
To invest in digital assets, the victim took out several loans from banks. The total amount of loans amounted to 1.9 million rubles. He transferred the funds to the company’s e-wallet account. And, indeed, profits grew, however, only on the monitor screen. When a resident of Kogalym “earned” about $12,000, he tried to withdraw the profit, but his account was frozen. The scammers tried to convince the victim that insurance worth another $13,000 was needed, but the man already realized that he had transferred the money to the scammers, and there were no crypto investments. The victim then contacted the police.
Now law enforcement officers are trying to identify the organizers and participants of the fraudulent scheme. The local branch of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the grounds of fraud on an especially large scale.
Most recently, a resident of Kemerovo lost 800,000 rubles in a similar fraudulent scheme.
Source: Bits
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