In her pursuit of financial gain, the Khabarovsk woman stumbled upon an enticing advertisement for an investment platform online and reached out to the provided number. A supposed manager answered her call, touting the potential for significant earnings through small investments in cryptocurrencies.
According to the self-proclaimed “manager,” digital assets have emerged as the most lucrative and rapidly growing commodities. Moreover, the Khabarovsk resident was assured that she need not worry about trading cryptocurrencies herself – the platform’s managers would handle everything; all she had to do was transfer funds to the platform.
Ensnared in the deception, the victim proceeded to transfer a staggering sum of 3,150,000 rubles to the platform within just 11 days. To fund this investment, she emptied her savings accounts, acquired multiple bank loans, and even borrowed money from her nephew. Naturally, when she attempted to withdraw her invested funds, the scammers conveniently vanished, severing contact.
As a result, law enforcement agencies in the Khabarovsk Territory have launched an investigation. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Article 159, charging the scammers with “Fraud on an especially large scale.”
Just recently, it was also reported that an individual from Buryatia suffered a loss of 1.8 million rubles after falling victim to cryptocurrency scammers.