Another story of crypto fraud occurred in the Republic of Tuva ― a 51-year-old resident of Kyzyl transferred more than 1 million rubles to fraudsters in an attempt to make money on investments in digital assets.
It all started with the fact that the victim responded to an ad in the Odnoklassniki social network about learning how to earn money on cryptocurrencies. Then she was contacted by a certain woman in the Telegram messenger, who promised that "employees of an investment company" would teach her how to trade cryptocurrencies profitably. To do this, a resident of Kyzyl needed to download Skype, and then install the ByBit and Coinbase Wallet applications.
Interestingly, scammers installed real applications for working with cryptocurrencies to the victim. The scheme itself was different ― the "analyst" stated that the woman needed to transfer $5,000 to get access to a VIP group for training in trading. Kyzylchanka took out a loan from a bank and transferred 445,000 rubles to the specified account. At the same time, the bank employee warned the client that, most likely, she was transferring funds to fraudsters, but she insisted on the operation.
"After that, the applicant was added to the Telegram group and her "mentor"said that another $5,000 was needed in order to deposit money to the account of the previously installed platform and start earning. The applicant again went to the bank and issued two more loans totaling 595,000 rubles, and also transferred this money on the instructions of the same "analyst" to an unknown account, " the law enforcement agencies of Tuva report.
However, this was not enough. In order to "really earn money", the woman was asked for another $5,000. However, this time Tuvinka's resources were exhausted. After emptying her credit card and taking out loans from microfinance organizations, she scraped together another 145,000 rubles. With the help of analytics, she deposited funds to the Bybit platform (although it is not reported whether to her own account). After that, the scammers stopped contacting the victim.
As a result, a 51-year-old resident of Kyzyl lost 1,185,000 rubles. Now the investigators are conducting a case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud committed on a particularly large scale".
In February, two residents of the Trans-Baikal Territory lost a total of about 5 million rubles in similar fraudulent schemes.
It all started with the fact that the victim responded to an ad in the Odnoklassniki social network about learning how to earn money on cryptocurrencies. Then she was contacted by a certain woman in the Telegram messenger, who promised that "employees of an investment company" would teach her how to trade cryptocurrencies profitably. To do this, a resident of Kyzyl needed to download Skype, and then install the ByBit and Coinbase Wallet applications.
Interestingly, scammers installed real applications for working with cryptocurrencies to the victim. The scheme itself was different ― the "analyst" stated that the woman needed to transfer $5,000 to get access to a VIP group for training in trading. Kyzylchanka took out a loan from a bank and transferred 445,000 rubles to the specified account. At the same time, the bank employee warned the client that, most likely, she was transferring funds to fraudsters, but she insisted on the operation.
"After that, the applicant was added to the Telegram group and her "mentor"said that another $5,000 was needed in order to deposit money to the account of the previously installed platform and start earning. The applicant again went to the bank and issued two more loans totaling 595,000 rubles, and also transferred this money on the instructions of the same "analyst" to an unknown account, " the law enforcement agencies of Tuva report.
However, this was not enough. In order to "really earn money", the woman was asked for another $5,000. However, this time Tuvinka's resources were exhausted. After emptying her credit card and taking out loans from microfinance organizations, she scraped together another 145,000 rubles. With the help of analytics, she deposited funds to the Bybit platform (although it is not reported whether to her own account). After that, the scammers stopped contacting the victim.
As a result, a 51-year-old resident of Kyzyl lost 1,185,000 rubles. Now the investigators are conducting a case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud committed on a particularly large scale".
In February, two residents of the Trans-Baikal Territory lost a total of about 5 million rubles in similar fraudulent schemes.
