Sergey Mendeleev, CEO of Indefibank, received a letter from unknown persons who extorted cryptocurrency under the threat of sending false reports about mining on his behalf. The businessman told this to ForkLog.

The authors of the appeal filed a claim to pay the equivalent of $500 in Monero each month, calling their offer a “discount”.

“Don’t you want all kinds of garbage to be taken out on your behalf all over Russia? Then you can take advantage of the promotional offer: buy immunity for only $500 per month. The letter reads, “Payments on the first day of every month in Monero.”

The attackers also mentioned Alexander Lebedev, Mendeleev’s partner in the Indefieco DeFi project, and Konstantin Malofeev, an entrepreneur who, according to some reports, was linked to the theft of bitcoin from the WEX exchange.

In case of refusal to cooperate, the hijackers promised that from May 2, they will continue their “mining” activities at various infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation. To this day, Mendeleev’s mail received about a dozen responses from city governments about receiving messages on his behalf from postal robots.

In a comment to ForkLog, the crypto businessman suggested that the authors of the letter most likely had nothing to do with the WEX lawsuit.

“I’m 99 percent sure this person isn’t writing from the Russian Federation, otherwise he would have known by May 4 that nothing was working here and all his letters would go to the fuck on the tray,” he added.

Recall that at the end of January 2022, the name Mendeleev was used in the distribution of a number of false reports about mining in various regions of the Russian Federation. In the protests, the attackers showed the businessman’s real mailbox and phone number.

Then Mendeleev linked this attack to his ongoing investigations. In particular, he mentioned the material published on ForkLog about the transfer of part of the bitcoins from the wallet of the “miner”, who calls himself a WEX client, to the Binance exchange.