No free registration in Russia? You mean Ruskis can't register on steemit normally? That sucks. In any case you can always create an account yourself for 6 STEEM on this page https://v2.steemconnect.com/accounts/create
50$ is a scam. It's hard to believe that anyone would fall for this scam.
inber68 · 4 days ago
There were troubles to get registered from Russia when @andrianna did it (register on steemit, I mean. I know cause a lot of my friends tried and failed). So appeared some kind of a "black business", people coudn't manage to register using their own phone numbers, and the scammers proposed them to buy a ready ones, probably registered on abroad numbers. So the reason why she had to buy an account instead of creating it for free is pretty simple - there was no opportunity to do it. But the reason why bittrex wallet was included is really strange, I never heard about troubles to register there. It seems to me that it can a part of general fraud plan @andrianna and @elenasteem are now suffering from.
As I understand the trouble is even not her identity, but the memo she uses fro withdraw. As I understand it's similar to some other account.