{"id":39160,"date":"2021-03-18T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39160"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:12:33","slug":"ukraine-halts-call-centre-scam-that-siphoned-funds-by-posing-as-cryptocurrency-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukraine-halts-call-centre-scam-that-siphoned-funds-by-posing-as-cryptocurrency-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine halts call-centre scam that siphoned funds by posing as cryptocurrency investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has halted the activities of criminals who extorted funds from citizens of the European Union and CIS under the guise of investments in cryptocurrency, securities, gold and other assets.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-zablokuvala-masshtabnu-skhemu-zavolodinnia-koshtamy-hromadian-yes\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">SBU site<\/span><\/a>, the gang organised a network of \u201ccall centres\u201d. The criminals, impersonating employees of well-known brokerage firms, called victims and offered earnings from trading various assets, promising large profits in a short time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">After taking the funds, they blocked the \u201cinvestors\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The criminals also used databases of victims from similar schemes and offered to recover funds for a commission. After paying it, they terminated contact with the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The SBU called the scheme a \u201ctransnational fraudulent mechanism\u201d. Its organizers included citizens of Ukraine as well as other states. The operation was coordinated from Kyiv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">During searches, SBU officers seized more than 2 million hryvnias of stolen funds, servers and documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The investigation continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in December, Kharkiv police <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-ukraine-a-network-of-call-centres-laundered-more-than-42-million-hryvnias-in-cryptocurrency\">exposed a gang of criminals<\/a>, who, posing as bank employees, stole money from citizens&#8217; accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has halted the activities of criminals who extorted funds from citizens of the European Union and CIS under the guise of investments in cryptocurrency, securities, gold and other assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1143,16],"class_list":["post-39160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160","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=39160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39162,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions\/39162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}