加密貨幣騙子使用可疑的逮捕令勒索涉嫌陪審團的律師

發現加密騙子正在使用“官方查看”文件來模仿美國地方法院的官員，這些文件聲稱來自弗吉尼亞州東部地區

A West Virginia district court has warned the public about cryptocurrency scammers who are attempting to extort payments for alleged missed jury duty using forged documents and threats of arrest.

西弗吉尼亞州地方法院已警告公眾有關加密貨幣詐騙者，他們試圖勒索涉嫌使用偽造文件和逮捕威脅的陪審團的陪審團付款。

The scammers were found to be impersonating officials from the U.S. District Court, using “official looking” documents that falsely claim to come from the Eastern District of Virginia, a recent notification from the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia warned.

發現這些騙子正在冒充美國地方法院的官員，使用“官方查看”文件，這些文件聲稱來自弗吉尼亞州東部地區。

The forged arrest warrants accuse victims of skipping jury duty and demand immediate payment for this offense.

偽造的逮捕令指責受害者避免陪審團的職責，並要求立即為此犯罪付款。

The scam typically unfolds over a phone call where the victim is coerced into paying the scammers via Bitcoin (BTC) and other hard-to-trace means like gift cards. If victims don’t comply, they are threatened with arrest.

騙局通常是通過電話進行的，在該電話中，受害者被強迫通過比特幣（BTC）支付詐騙者，而其他難以追踪的騙局則意味著像禮品卡一樣。如果受害者不遵守，他們會受到逮捕的威脅。

But U.S. district courts “do not issue arrest warrants” for failing to appear for jury duty unless the individual has been “summoned,” court officials clarified. They also noted that they would never contact a member of the public demanding Bitcoin.

但是，法院官員澄清說，除非該人被“召喚”，否則美國地方法院“不簽發逮捕令”，除非該個人被“召喚”。他們還指出，他們永遠不會聯繫公眾要求比特幣的成員。

Anyone who receives such documents, especially those demanding Bitcoin payments over the phone, is urged to contact the court directly to verify the authenticity of the documents, the officials concluded.

官員總結說，任何收到此類文件的人，尤其是那些要求通過電話付款的人，都敦促直接與法院聯繫以核實文件的真實性。

Such scams, where bad actors impersonate government officials and other industry figures, have been running rife in the crypto sector, which lost over $3 billion to fraud and hacks in 2024 alone, according to a January report from PeckSheild.

根據Pecksheild的一月份的一份報告，這種騙局在加密貨幣領域盛行了政府官員和其他行業人物，僅在2024年就損失了超過30億美元的欺詐和黑客攻擊。

In late 2023, the FBI cracked down on one such scheme, which targeted residents of El Paso, Texas, with phishing email letters pretending to have been sent by the bureau. Around the same time, the agency issued an alert about scammers on Telegram who were posing as venture capital investors, tricking crypto users into downloading malicious software.

2023年下半年，聯邦調查局（FBI）鎮壓了一項這樣的計劃，該計劃針對德克薩斯州埃爾帕索（El Paso）的居民，並假裝寄給了該局的網絡釣魚電子郵件信件。大約在同一時間，該機構發布了有關騙子在電報上冒充風險投資者的警報，欺騙了加密用戶下載惡意軟件。

More recently, law enforcement agencies across multiple jurisdictions have raised alarms over scammers impersonating representatives of crypto exchange Binance to defraud users.

最近，多個司法管轄區的執法機構對騙子的騙子發出了警報，該騙子對欺詐用戶冒充加密貨幣交易所的代表。