Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: August 29, 2018

Attack type:

• Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Lukpan Akhmedyarov, editor of the Uralsk Week newspaper, said someone had created an exact copy of his Facebook page. On the fake page, the false Akhmedyarov published a post about the creation of a fee-paying School of Journalism, for training in which you need to transfer 40,000 tenge to a Qiwi wallet account number.