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ForkLog 9 03.09.2021

Fraudsters announce Bitcoin giveaway via hacked Ryazan city administration site

The Ryazan city administration's website was hacked. The attackers posted on the page what appeared to be a Bitcoin giveaway, local media said.

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ForkLog 7 02.09.2021

Suspects in attack on cryptocurrency trader detained at Kemerovo airport

The police have identified two suspects in the theft of 50 million rubles from a resident of Tomsk, which he had received from selling cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 18 01.09.2021

Chainalysis: Finiko pyramid investors from Eastern Europe lost more than $1.5 billion

The Finiko financial pyramid collected over $1.5 billion in bitcoin from investors in Eastern Europe. The majority of this sum originated from Russia and Ukraine.

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ForkLog 15 01.09.2021

Media reports: Official losses in Finiko case exceed 250 million rubles

The official losses in the Finiko pyramid case have risen to 250 million rubles. This is stated in the revised indictment filed by the Tatarstan interior ministry against Finiko founder Kirill Doronin.

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ForkLog 8 01.09.2021

Two suspects detained in Irkutsk region over theft of ASIC miners

Authorities in the Priangarye region identified two suspects in the theft of Bitcoin-mining equipment.

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ForkLog 7 31.08.2021

Survey: 77% of Russian investors say Bitcoin is more promising than ‘traditional currencies’ and gold

Nearly 77% of Russian investors believe buying cryptocurrencies is more promising than investments in traditional national currencies and gold, according to a survey by the Association of Forex Dealers (AFD) in August.

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ForkLog 10 31.08.2021

Russian and Belizean prosecutors to monitor illicit bitcoin activity

Russian and Belizean prosecutors agreed to exchange information on cybercrime, including matters related to the cryptocurrency market.

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ForkLog 10 31.08.2021

Analysts: Token-fraud volume in Russia reaches 2.2 billion rubles

The volume of fraud involving digital assets in the first half of 2021 totaled $1.5 billion, two to three times higher than in the same period in 2020. This was reported by analytics firm Zecurion.

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ForkLog 19 31.08.2021

Media: Co-founders of the Finiko pyramid scheme have been declared internationally wanted

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan granted the petitions for arrest in absentia of three Finiko pyramid co-founders — Marat and Edward Sabirov, and Zygmunt Zygmuntovich.

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ForkLog 25 30.08.2021

Two Russian women lose more than 8 million rubles to cryptocurrency scammers

A 63-year-old woman from Voronezh was swindled by criminals who promised profits from cryptocurrency trading, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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ForkLog 10 27.08.2021

Yaroslavl court sentences mining-equipment thief

A 34-year-old resident of Yaroslavl was found guilty of stealing mining equipment worth more than 1.6 million rubles.

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ForkLog 14 27.08.2021

Russian man loses 1.2 million rubles in a Bitcoin scam

A resident of Borovichi in the Novgorod region fell victim to a fake cryptocurrency exchange run by criminals.

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