{"id":74679,"date":"2023-02-27T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74679"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:37:51","slug":"in-bali-a-russian-crypto-blogger-had-284000-in-cryptocurrency-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-bali-a-russian-crypto-blogger-had-284000-in-cryptocurrency-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"In Bali, a Russian crypto blogger had $284,000 in cryptocurrency stolen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four unknown men attacked Russian investment blogger Yuri Boytsov, who resides on Bali, and forcibly compelled him to transfer $284,000 in cryptocurrency. The Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bazabazon\/16041\">Baza<\/a> reported this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the victim, a group of unknown men stormed onto his villa and demanded the money allegedly because the blogger had &#8216;cheated&#8217; someone. When Boytsov refused to transfer the funds voluntarily, the attackers struck him on the head several times, forced him to unlock his phone and hand over his passwords.<\/p>\n<p>A number of transactions triggered additional verification, for which the robbers photographed Yuri with his passport and sent the photo to the support team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/tVLgvkn3O3_BUfAzkIN0PxG71i3AfqTMQp-booVJrTSrB7eK6KdO7-JVQOp8MGRwBfps-xhczip8l8d5Du9wfk81PAjarNrw6jNIv8xfRRT-0l-p7gnNGceDXziYSqcUjwKilax-2HaJ2w7AIJ20sOQ\" alt=\"In Bali, a Russian blogger's $284,000 in cryptocurrency was stolen\"\/><figcaption>Source: Baza.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Boytsov&#8217;s girlfriend, the attackers withdrew all cryptocurrency from their accounts totaling $284,000, and also seized their international passports.<\/p>\n<p>The group provided CCTV footage to the police, and one of the alleged perpetrators was detained. He denies his guilt and says that Boytsov is a fraudster and to blame for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May 2022, six people in the UAE <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-the-uae-investors-who-lost-30m-robbed-a-cryptocurrency-expert\">attacked a cryptocurrency expert<\/a>, whose advice led them to lose $30m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four unknown men attacked Russian investment blogger Yuri Boytsov, who resides on Bali, and forced him to transfer $284,000 in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74680,"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":[1415,1154,1530],"class_list":["post-74679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-celebrities","tag-crimes","tag-indonesia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"103","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74679","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=74679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74681,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74679\/revisions\/74681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}