A pensioner from Kaliningrad lost 5 million rubles when trying to trade cryptocurrencies – Bits Media

53-summer resident of Kaliningrad trusted the scammers, offering to make money trading cryptocurrencies, and lost more 5 million rubles.

She has been interested in the possibility of trading in securities for some time., transferred small amounts and tried trade. However, after that, as one of the accounts of a pensioner showed a profit, "Financial Consultant" called her, Offering cryptocurrency trading. He told, that he has a friend, selling digital assets at competitive prices and convinced her to take a loan, To invest in cryptocurrencies.

“Kaliningrad not only transferred more than five and a half million rubles to scammers to scammers, but also laid out her apartment as securing a loan. All, As scammers demanded, not sparing her ", -said the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kaliningrad Region Svetlana supplied.

First, the pensioner took 1.8 Million rubles under 44% annual, to earn on cryptocurrencies. However, after the transfer of money, the fraudster said, that there are problems with the withdrawal of funds. He convinced her to translate him more 3.5 million rubles, promising to pay all the money at once. A resident of Kaliningrad had to lay an apartment, to fulfill these conditions.

Of course, Having received this amount, The fraudster requested even more. After that, the pensioner contacted the police. Now law enforcement agencies are being verified at the request of the victim and, According to the results of the audit, They will open a criminal case on charges of fraud.

Such cases of deception of gullible Russians occur quite often. Earlier, a resident of Omsk lost
900 thousand rubles, And in November 2020 year to the police turned
A resident of the Altai Territory, who translated fraudsters 1.5 million rubles.