A 42-year-old resident of Cheboksary became a victim of scammers who offered her a way to make money from cryptocurrency, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chuvash Republic.
In 2019 and 2020, the victim transferred a total of 407,000 rubles to the accounts of two fictitious brokerage firms, allegedly engaged in cryptocurrency trading. She could not recover the money.
In late February 2021, an unknown man contacted her, promising to help recover the funds. For his services, he demanded a fee equal to 10% of the amount withdrawn.
At the financier’s request, the Russian woman installed a computer program and transferred 15,000 rubles in two transactions to the brokerage company’s account.
When the amount in her account allegedly exceeded 600,000 rubles, the fraudster demanded additional investments. To this end, the victim took out a bank loan of 310,000 rubles and borrowed 250,000 rubles from her mother. In total, she transferred 564,000 rubles to the fraudulent broker.
Only after this did the Russian woman find information about the company online and realise that she had been scammed.
The police opened an investigation into fraud.
Earlier, ForkLog reported that a resident of the Sverdlovsk region, who believed in a similar scheme, lost 800,000 rubles.
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