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A 22-year-old resident of Minsk lost 23,000 Belarusian rubles (about $8,000 dollars) when she tried to cash out cryptocurrency, the Oktyabrsky district department of internal affairs of the capital of the Republic of Belarus said.
The girl told the police that she had become a victim of deception by an acquaintance. A Minsk resident wanted to withdraw funds from her crypto wallet and asked a friend for help. He sent her step-by-step instructions, and the girl followed the instructions: she transferred an unnamed cryptocurrency to the specified wallet and began to wait for the money. She did not receive the promised rubles at the agreed time, and her friend stopped communicating.
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The girl reported her friend to the police, and he was detained. The detainee admitted: he used the data from his friend’s crypto-wallet in an attempt to hide traces of the crime. After the money was cashed, the man used it to pay off his own debts and personal expenses. Minsk investigators opened a criminal case under article of fraud.
Belarusian scammers have begun to increasingly impersonate government services and demand the transfer of fiat money to digital assets. told Minsk police. A 15-year-old teenager from Minsk first received a call allegedly from the intercom service and was persuaded to dictate the code in an SMS message. During the second call, the scammers pretended to be employees of the Belarusian State Telecommunications Inspectorate (BelGIE). Fake energy workers reported that the teenager had just been involved in a crime. For four days, the scammers intimidated the ninth-grader with a criminal case and convinced him to register a crypto-wallet and transfer $4,000 into cryptocurrency through a “departmental employee.” The young man gave the money to an unknown casher, and when a few days later he did not see the money in his wallet, he told everything to his parents.
In Russia, thefts are periodically committed under the pretext of investing in digital assets. A resident of Komi believed the words of an unknown person about quick income from cryptocurrencies, issued loans for her brother for 1.5 million rubles, and transferred the money to scammers.
