Six Foreigners Forced a Russian Couple in Thailand to Transfer Over $50,000 in Crypto, After Initially asking for $3 Million

A Russian couple in southern Thailand claims that a gang of six foreign men – including Russians, Kazakhs and a German – extorted them of cryptocurrency worth US$50,000.

Mr Evgeny(the victim) said that while he was drinking coffee in the shop, Six men surrounded them of Russian, German, and Kazakh nationality.

One of them later known as Mr. Salman Almaty of German nationality have come to talk, claiming to have met the victims in Russia and threatening the victims to transfer $3 million in digital currency or cryptocurrencies.

But the victim had only 58,000 US dollars of cryptocurrencies. They were afraid of physical harm, so they transferred the cryptocurrencies amounted to US$50,000. Salman Almaty then left his phone number and said he would come back to collect the money again.

The next day, September 15, Evgeny said he went out to eat when he noticed he was being followed, so he returned home.

On September 18, Evgeny said he got a call via Telegram requesting more cryptocurrency to be transferred via Bybit. However, the couple didn’t have anything left. So, they pondered what to do for a few days and then decided to file a police complaint.

The original article containing the video is in the Thai Language Read Here

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