{"id":85121,"date":"2023-09-28T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85121"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:25:47","slug":"alexey-pomerko-of-arsenal-tula-loses-2-3-million-rubles-in-a-cryptocurrency-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/alexey-pomerko-of-arsenal-tula-loses-2-3-million-rubles-in-a-cryptocurrency-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexey Pomerko of Arsenal Tula loses 2.3 million rubles in a cryptocurrency purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arsenal Tula footballer Alexey Pomerko became a victim of a fraudster while attempting to buy cryptocurrency. This was reported by the Telegram channel <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/shot_shot\/57494\\\">SHOT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to available information, Pomerko asked his friend\u2014the former footballer who played for Russia&#8217;s youth and under-21 national teams, Vyacheslav Dmitriev\u2014to carry out the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The first transaction for $10,000 went through successfully. Dmitriev handed over the money to the seller, who transferred it to the crypto wallet and showed a screenshot of the deposit being credited.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the second meeting, when the footballer&#8217;s friend handed over another $24,500, the money did not reach Pomerko&#8217;s wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriev reported to the police. The loss is estimated at nearly 2.3 million rubles at the exchange rate at the time of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement is seeking the vehicle the seller was using.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that Russian actor Artem Tkachenko <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-actor-loses-about-260000-in-fraudulent-bitcoin-investments\">lost around $260,000<\/a> on fraudulent Bitcoin investments, trusting the advice of Pavel Derevyanko, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/actor-pavel-derevyanko-discusses-failed-crypto-investments\">suffered losses from ill-fated investments<\/a> in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arsenal Tula footballer Alexey Pomerko became a victim of a scammer while attempting to buy cryptocurrency through his friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85122,"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":[59,1246],"class_list":["post-85121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-moscow","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121","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=85121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85123,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121\/revisions\/85123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}