{"id":19131,"date":"2024-12-03T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-police-uncover-fake-crypto-atm-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:30:20","slug":"russian-police-uncover-fake-crypto-atm-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-police-uncover-fake-crypto-atm-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Police Uncover Fake Crypto ATM Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Moscow, police have detained a suspect involved in the theft of citizens&#8217; savings through the use of crypto ATMs, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/wall-26323016_85622\">statement<\/a> from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information suggests that a group of criminals installed over 20 crypto ATMs in several Russian regions and managed them remotely. Allegedly, victims were contacted by phone and persuaded to deposit money through the terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The purchased cryptocurrencies were transferred to the wallets of the scheme&#8217;s organizers, while the cash from the ATMs was later collected by the group&#8217;s leader and also exchanged for digital assets, investigators believe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/video_ext.php?oid=-26323016&#038;id=456245229&#038;hd=2\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; screen-wake-lock;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Police claim that the scheme had curators from Ukraine and that most of the funds were sent to them.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary estimates indicate that over 150 people fell victim to the fraudsters. One victim transferred more than 2.5 million rubles to so-called safe accounts.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been initiated on charges of fraud. One suspect has been taken into custody, while others have been placed under an obligation to appear.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, Russia handed down its first sentence against fraudulent cryptocurrency brokers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Moscow, police have detained a suspect involved in the theft of citizens&#8217; savings through the use of crypto ATMs, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Preliminary information suggests that a group of criminals installed over 20 crypto ATMs in several Russian regions and managed them remotely. Allegedly, victims were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1189,44,27],"class_list":["post-19131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptomats","tag-cybercrime","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}