West Virginia court warns of Bitcoin scam involving fake jury duty arrest warrants

A district court of Virginie-Western alerted the public to the crooks of cryptocurrencies using doubtful arrest mandates to extort payments for an alleged missed jury service.

Crypto crooks have been deemed usurping the identity of civil servants of the American district court, using “official appearance” documents which wrongly claim the eastern district of Virginia, a recent notification of the American district court of the western district of Virginia warned.

The counter -factories arrest warrants accuse the victims of jumping the rights of the jury and of requesting an immediate payment.

The scam generally takes place on a telephone call where the victim is forced to pay the crooks via Bitcoin and other means that are difficult to trace like gift cards. If the victims do not comply, they are threatened with arrest.

Court officials said the American district courts “do not emit arrest mandates” for not having appeared for judgment unless the person was “summoned”.

They urged anyone who receives such documents, in particular those requiring Bitcoin payments by phone, to contact the court directly to check their authenticity.

Such scams, where bad players pretend to be government officials and other industry figures, have run in the cryptography sector, which lost more than $ 3 billion for fraud and hacks in 2024, according to a January, according to a January, report from Pecksheild.

At the end of 2023, the FBI cracked One of these regimes, which targeted the residents of El Paso, Texas, with phishing e-mail letters claiming to have been sent by the office. Almost at the same time, the agency issued an alert on the crooks on Telegram which were pretend to go venture capital investorsDecor crypto users in downloading malware.

More recently, law enforcement organizations through several courts Raised alarms On crooks Imitation of representatives From Crypto Exchange Binance to fraud users.