A 45-year-old man responded to an offer to make money on cryptocurrencies. At the same time, he was well aware of the large amount of fraud in this area, but his previous successful investment experience outweighed the possible risks.
As a result, on the instructions of the “investment manager,” the man downloaded and installed the application on his phone. And he even managed to make money with the help of a “personal trader” – he invested 281,000 rubles and withdrew an income of 14,000 rubles.
After the first successes, the victim decided to increase the amount of investment and transferred more than 1.5 million rubles to the scammers. After this, the application stopped working, and the “managers” disappeared from social networks.
Now law enforcement agencies of Buryatia are conducting an investigation into a criminal case for a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”).
Previously, a resident of Norilsk lost more than 5 million rubles – she trusted a bank manager she knew and decided to make money on cryptocurrencies.
Source: Bits
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