加密货币骗子使用可疑的逮捕令勒索涉嫌陪审团的律师

发现加密骗子正在使用“官方查看”文件来模仿美国地方法院的官员，这些文件声称来自弗吉尼亚州东部地区

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.

西弗吉尼亚州地方法院已警告公众有关加密货币诈骗者，他们试图勒索涉嫌使用伪造文件和逮捕威胁的陪审团的陪审团付款。

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.

发现这些骗子正在冒充美国地方法院的官员，使用“官方查看”文件，这些文件声称来自弗吉尼亚州东部地区。

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

伪造的逮捕令指责受害者避免陪审团的职责，并要求立即为此犯罪付款。

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.

骗局通常是通过电话进行的，在该电话中，受害者被强迫通过比特币（BTC）支付诈骗者，而其他难以追踪的骗局则意味着像礼品卡一样。如果受害者不遵守，他们会受到逮捕的威胁。

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，法院官员澄清说，除非该人被“召唤”，否则美国地方法院“不签发逮捕令”，除非该个人被“召唤”。他们还指出，他们永远不会联系公众要求比特币的成员。

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.

官员总结说，任何收到此类文件的人，尤其是那些要求通过电话付款的人，都敦促直接与法院联系以核实文件的真实性。

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.

根据Pecksheild的一月份的一份报告，这种骗局在加密货币领域盛行了政府官员和其他行业人物，仅在2024年就损失了超过30亿美元的欺诈和黑客攻击。

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，联邦调查局（FBI）镇压了一项这样的计划，该计划针对德克萨斯州埃尔帕索（El Paso）的居民，并假装寄给了该局的网络钓鱼电子邮件信件。大约在同一时间，该机构发布了有关骗子在电报上冒充风险投资者的警报，欺骗了加密用户下载恶意软件。

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

最近，多个司法管辖区的执法机构对骗子的骗子发出了警报，该骗子对欺诈用户冒充加密货币交易所的代表。