A woman from Kazan decided to buy cryptocurrency and lost 680,000 rubles.

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      A resident of Kazan decided to buy crypto and lost 680 thousand rubles

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      A resident of Kazan herself went to the police, reporting that earlier she had transferred nearly 700,000 rubles to scammers under the pretext of earning money on a crypto exchange platform.

      In Kazan, a 39-year-old woman registered as self-employed became a victim of fraudsters, losing a total of nearly 700,000 rubles. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan, shortly before the New Year she began receiving messages offering high-yield investments in cryptocurrencies. To start work, an initial deposit was required. After thinking it over, on December 31 the woman transferred 680,000 rubles to the accounts provided by the criminals. Part of this amount — 80,000 rubles — she took out as a bank loan. By January 1 all contact with the scammers had been cut off: their numbers and accounts were blocked, and access to the promised "platform" disappeared. Based on the victim's statement, law enforcement opened a criminal case.

      To prevent similar cases, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan urges citizens to exercise maximum vigilance: do not discuss your financial affairs with strangers and under no circumstances transfer money to accounts whose details were obtained from dubious sources.

      It should be noted that this is not the first case in which scammers have managed to obtain money from residents of the republic. Earlier it was reported that a woman from Tatarstan was left without a bed and 2.8 million rubles after a conversation with scammers. According to experts, residents of Tatarstan suffered record losses from scammers last year — 4.5 billion rubles for the year.

      Arina Mikhailova

      Published: 16.01.2026 09:20

      Edited: 16.01.2026 09:20