The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies has motivated many criminals. While many criminals commit fraud using cryptocurrencies, the latest incident has revealed another aspect of crypto.
At this point, fraudsters took advantage of the ease of transfer of cryptocurrencies.
Within the scope of the investigation initiated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 29 people who were found to have defrauded citizens through fake investment and stock market websites were detained.
In the statement, it was stated that these people called citizens, introduced themselves as Forex employees and defrauded them with the promise of making high profits.
The statement also stated that these people transferred the money they obtained to foreign cryptocurrency exchange accounts.
The operation was carried out simultaneously in a total of 8 provinces, centered in Ankara and including Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Bursa, Antalya, Kilis, Bitlis and Kars.
“Within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, our citizens, after seeing advertisements under the name of free training on Forex in social media, forum sites operating in stock market and investment services, filled out the form by writing their mobile phone numbers in order to participate in the training, and as a result, the suspect introduced himself as Forex employees. It has been determined that individuals contacted the victims with the promise of high profits.
It has been determined that the suspicious persons contacted created the interface of real investment sites, gave the appearance of legal stock exchange to fake stock exchange sites, and made citizens transfer money to their own virtual company and personal accounts.
As a result of the studies, it was determined that the suspects tried to hide the traces of their unfair gains by transferring the transferred money to foreign crypto exchange accounts.
A simultaneous operation was carried out in a total of 8 provinces, centered in Ankara, Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Bursa, Antalya, Kilis, Bitlis and Kars, and 29 suspects were caught and detained.
During the searches, 2 unlicensed guns, 2 blank cartridges, 65 loaded cartridges, and 261,200.00 dollars, 17,920.00 TL, 845 Euros, 52 Republic gold coins, and 4 quarter gold coins were seized from the house of suspect Y.U. “
*This is not investment advice.
