Angarsk pensioner loses nearly 300,000 rubles to a fictitious crypto-trading scheme

Unknown suspects stole nearly 300,000 rubles from a 62-year-old Angarsk resident under the pretext of investments in cryptocurrency trading and compensation for damages, according to the local police department.

The victim shared her personal data on one of the cryptocurrency trading sites. Shortly after, an unknown caller phoned her back and explained the investment scheme.

Over a few days the Angarsk resident transferred 247,000 rubles to the scammers’ accounts. After a sudden halt in trading, she realised she had fallen victim to the scammers and stopped answering calls from the ‘trader’.

Later, the pensioner was contacted by staff of a certain ‘Insurance Service for the Return of Funds to Fraud Victims’. They told her that she was allegedly entitled to compensation, and to receive it they proposed transferring 50,000 rubles to a phone number.

The pensioner complied with the stranger’s request, but he called again and, under the pretext of difficulties with the money transfer, suggested retrying. Finding such conduct suspicious, the Angarsk resident turned to law enforcement.

The police opened a criminal case in connection with fraud.

Earlier, a resident of Irkutsk Oblast who wanted to buy a mining farm to heat his garage became a victim of scammers.

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