The increasing popularity of Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies has motivated many criminals. In Turkey, as in many countries around the world, criminals take advantage of the popularity of cryptocurrencies and steal people's money.
At this point, the latest news came from Izmir.
The network that created a fake site in order to seize citizens' cryptocurrency assets and captured their cryptocurrency accounts by sending links to citizens through the site they ranked at the top in the search engine and obtaining the GSM verification code, was collapsed.
In the “Operation Wallet” carried out against the cryptocurrency network, 42 of the 64 suspects for whom a detention warrant was issued were detained.
While it was determined that this gang defrauded citizens of approximately 50 million liras, it was announced that Ukrainian leaders from abroad directed the gang.
It was stated that the gang, which defrauded Turkish citizens, sent the money to its leaders, who then gambled abroad with this money.
Within the framework of the investigation carried out by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, it was revealed that this gang created a fake website very close to the real one, wrote “Cryptocurrency special for the 5th anniversary is being distributed” on their social media accounts, sent a link to citizens with the promise of distributing crypto and received a GSM approval code, and in this way, citizens were asked to use their crypto money. It was determined that he had seized money accounts.
It was stated that the Wallet Operation was carried out simultaneously in the provinces of Adana, Aksaray, Ağrı, Aydın, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Isparta, Istanbul, Hakkari, Kırklareli, Kocaeli, Mersin, Muğla, Niğde and Samsun, centered in Izmir.
*This is not investment advice.