SMS-crooks fraudulently obtained 21166 roubles from the inhabitant of the Yakut city Mirny. He responded to received on his mobile phone the message with the offer is profitable to buy bitcoin and sent the amount to the account of the scammers.

“Intrigued by newfangled in the financial sector area, the man decided to buy the virtual currency. To do this, he listed to the message current account cash in the amount 21166 rubles. But instead, the man got nothing”, is spoken in the message of the local police.

We will remind that recently in Moscow unknown persons cheated the seller of bitcoins, stealing cryptocurrency from him for 10 million roubles. The incident occurred in the South-Eastern part of the city, on Lefortovskom shaft. The two men negotiated a deal for the sale of bitcoins, at the appointed time, met at the agreed place, the seller has transferred to electronic media with cryptocurrency, but have not received a penny for it.

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