A local resident of Sakhalin Oblast appealed to the region’s Ministry of Internal Affairs after falling victim to scammers in an attempt to profit from trading on an exchange.
According to law enforcement authorities, a man registered on a ‘dubious site’, after which an unknown person contacted him. He said that to begin trading, he needed to deposit $130 into the account.
Subsequently, the victim took out a loan at a bank, converted the money into cryptocurrency and deposited it on the exchange.
Once he had replenished the account to nearly 2.5 million rubles, the site became inaccessible and the scammers seized his funds, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Earlier, scammers extorted 1.3 million rubles from a Kaliningrad woman, promising her earnings from cryptocurrencies.
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