A businessman who owns an e-commerce company in Ankara made a commercial sales contract with a foreign-based company over cryptocurrency at the request of the counterparty.
The businessman, who continued his business activities with the company, realised after a while that the other party had not paid; The businessman, who sent an e-mail to the company executives, realised that his $ 1.9 million cryptocurrency wallet account had been compromised after the other party sent the receipts of the payment.
Upon this, the businessman applied to his lawyer Betül Akça for legal assistance. Lawyer Akça forwarded the matter to the security units for technical follow-up of his client’s cryptocurrency wallet.
In the process, it was understood that the fraudsters created a fake interface by imitating the cryptocurrency exchange, and the businessman traded through this page.“They demanded a compromise”
In a statement to AA, lawyer Akça stated that they met with the cryptocurrency exchange company after identifying a legal gap arising from customer protection policies that will be considered new in terms of international law.
Explaining that the cryptocurrency exchange company gave the identity information of the fraudsters in order to close this gap, Akça said, “The fraudsters we contacted, who thought they could not be reached, demanded reconciliation because they understood that the penalty for this crime was great in international law and returned the client company’s money.”
Akça stated that his client was lucky in the incident and that not everyone may be so lucky.
Pointing out that crypto asset fraud has increased in recent days, Akça said that fraudsters have started to use unique methods.
Explaining that his client was tried to be defrauded with the interface form, but recently, phishing, Bitcoin offers, promises with high income content may also be in question, Akça said, “In these cases, individual investors should know their legal rights very clearly. Because it is assumed to be qualified fraud and the faster the legal process is started, the more likely they are to get a positive result.”
