A resident of Krasnoyarsk fell victim to crypto fraud and lost almost 9 million rubles
Date: 2024-10-14 Author: Henry Casey Categories: IN WORLD
She was promised a high income with minimal effort, which attracted her attention. To start “investing,” she took out her first loan for 1.8 million rubles and transferred the money to a fraudulent platform. However, this was not the end of it.
The scammers continued to convince the girl that she needed to invest more money to increase her profits. Having believed them, she took out five more loans for a total of more than 4 million rubles. In desperation, the girl even pawned her car to get money for investment. But this was not the limit: under the influence of promises of a quick return of funds, the victim borrowed another 970 thousand rubles from friends and acquaintances, and her grandmother provided 350 thousand rubles.
The situation was aggravated by the fact that the girl's mother, hoping to help return the money, took out several loans for a total of 1.9 million rubles. But despite all the efforts and investments, neither the "profit" nor the initial deposits were returned. Only after this did the victim realize that she had become a victim of fraud and contacted law enforcement agencies.
A criminal case has now been opened under the article on fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Such cases, unfortunately, are not uncommon. At the beginning of the year, two residents of Transbaikalia also lost about 5 million rubles trying to invest in cryptocurrencies.
