Authorities have opened a criminal case for fraud of a particularly large scale based on a complaint from a Stavropol resident who transferred about 3 million rubles to the scammers in an attempt to invest in cryptocurrency.
According to Regnum, an unknown person who identified themselves as an employee of an investment company contacted the victim and proposed investing in bitcoins.
The Stavropol resident transferred the funds to the perpetrators, but did not receive any profit or access to the promised cryptocurrency.
Police have started searching for those involved in the crime.
Earlier, a resident of the borrowed 1.2 million rubles and handed them to cryptocurrency scammers.
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