{"id":373860,"date":"2026-10-15T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:08:49","slug":"crypto-scammers-stole-millions-from-russian-speakers-brooklyn-just-hit-their-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373860\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto scammers stole millions from Russian speakers, Brooklyn just hit their servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have seized or disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto investment scam that allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking victims in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, carried out last week, came after a three-year investigation into a fraud network that relied on online infrastructure and IP addresses in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynda.org\/2026\/10\/14\/brooklyn-das-virtual-currency-unit-dismantles-infrastructure-of-multinational-crypto-investment-scam-that-targeted-russian-speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>. No arrests were announced.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers drew victims through Russian-language Facebook ads that promised investment opportunities. Fake advisers then called the victims and coached them to buy cryptocurrency and send it to fraudulent trading platforms.<\/p>\n<p>When victims tried to withdraw their funds, the platforms locked their accounts or demanded more payments for supposed taxes and fees.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers then \u201ctried to exploit them again with false promises to recover their money,\u201d Gonzalez said. Recovered data showed they contacted victims a few weeks after the initial fraud, offering to retrieve the stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s Virtual Currency Unit had previously seized or disrupted 400 domains tied to crypto investment fraud, but replacement sites kept appearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have seized or disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[132492,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-373860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bitcoin-crime","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}