Bitcoin (BTC) And of cryptocurrencies Its increasing popularity 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.
In order to seize citizens’ crypto assets, they create a fake site and send a link to the citizens through the site they rank at the top of the search engine and obtain the GSM approval code. The network that took over cryptocurrency accounts was busted.
Conducted for the cryptocurrency network “In Operation Wallet” 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 lira, 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 that was very close to the real one, and that it was posted on social media accounts as “5. They wrote, “Cryptocurrency is being distributed specially for the year”, sent a link to citizens with the promise of distributing crypto and received a GSM approval code, and in this way, citizens cryptocurrency It was determined that his accounts were taken over.
It was stated that Operation Wallet 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.
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