Fraudulent scheme under the guise of crypto investments: police are looking for victims
National Police investigators are looking for victims of a large-scale fraud scheme disguised as a crypto investment project. Under the guise of the international investment fund “S-Group”, scammers offered victims passive income by investing in cryptocurrency.
To use the services, the organizers created their own financial crypto wallet. The victims transferred funds there. Fraudsters seized investors for tens of millions of hryvnias.
In order to hide the further movement of assets, the attackers used dummy tokens, which are not on the list of official international platforms of cryptographic data providers due to the impossibility of passing an audit by the company “S-Group”. They were promised to investors as a profit from investing in projects, trading on the international foreign exchange market “Forex” or other transactions with financial assets.
In addition, the scammers guaranteed their clients significant “bonuses” in case of attracting new participants to the project.
Citizens of Ukraine are involved in the organization of the scheme. Their activities were also spread in the territory of the Russian Federation, the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as the countries of the European Union. Fraudsters misled tens of thousands of people, including citizens of Ukraine.
The National Police of Ukraine asks citizens who are victims of this fraudulent scheme to report this by mobile phone number (095) 695 53 19 or 102.
At the moment, the investigation to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice continues.
National Police of Ukraine
