{"id":86094,"date":"2023-10-23T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86094"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:20:29","slug":"in-moscow-the-accused-in-nft-scam-involving-670000-usdt-is-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-moscow-the-accused-in-nft-scam-involving-670000-usdt-is-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"In Moscow, the accused in NFT scam involving 670,000 USDT is arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Moscow court remanded the accused in custody in a fraud case in which funds were raised under the guise of NFT investments, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/web\/proc_77\/mass-media\/news?item=91004665\\\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a> in the local prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-video\\\"><video controls src=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0061.mp4\\\"><\/video><figcaption class=\\\"wp-element-caption\\\">Source: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/moscowproc\/3141\\\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430 \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u044b<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to investigators, the defendant met the victim at a business meeting and offered him to invest in NFT paintings by an artist known to the suspect, promising profits.<\/p>\n<p>The deals were discussed via chat in messaging apps. In total, the victim transferred cryptocurrency twice, for a total of more than 670,000 USDT, after which the attacker ceased to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are now determining the accused&#8217;s involvement in similar fraudulent schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that victims of investment scams included actors <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/actor-pavel-derevyanko-discusses-failed-crypto-investments\">\u041f\u0430\u0432\u0435\u043b \u0414\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u044f\u043d\u043a\u043e<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-actor-loses-about-260000-in-fraudulent-bitcoin-investments\">\u0410\u0440\u0442\u0435\u043c \u0422\u043a\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Moscow court placed the accused in custody on charges of fraudulently soliciting funds under the guise of investments in an NFT project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86095,"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":[1154,59,1213],"class_list":["post-86094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-moscow","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094","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=86094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86096,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions\/86096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}