Westlake警察局报告说，俄亥俄州地区的比特币ATM骗局增加

Westlake警方报告说，俄亥俄州地区的比特币ATM骗局的威胁增加，并指出罪犯现在针对居民。

Westlake police in Ohio are reporting a rise in the menace of Bitcoin ATM scams in the state, adding that criminals have begun targeting local residents.

俄亥俄州的韦斯特莱克警察局报告说，该州的比特币ATM骗局的威胁正在增加，并补充说罪犯已经开始针对当地居民。

In its report, the police mentioned that a couple was saved by a bank manager from Chase Bank, preventing them from being scammed out of $17,000. According to reports, the couple entered the bank to withdraw $17,000 which was meant for what they thought was a warrant from the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office. However, the bank manager realized that the move was out of character and informed the police of the development.

警方在其报告中提到，一对夫妇是由Chase Bank的一位银行经理救出的，阻止了他们被骗取17,000美元。据报道，这对夫妇进入银行撤回了17,000美元，这是为了他们认为是库亚霍加县警长办公室的逮捕令。但是，银行经理意识到这一举动是不可能的，并向警察告知了该发展。

The Westlake police mentioned that while the couple were being saved from the scam, two residents involved in two different incidents were not so lucky. According to Captain Jerry Vogel of the Westlake Police Department, the clerk at the bank did a very nice job calling their attention to the transaction. “The customer did figure out they were going to be scammed if they took this money out and put it in a buy gift card or put it into a crypto ATM, they were going to lose this money forever,” Captain Vogel said.

西湖警方提到，虽然这对夫妇从骗局中得救了，但两名涉及两起不同事件的居民并不那么幸运。据西湖警察局的杰里·沃格尔（Jerry Vogel）上尉说，银行的店员的工作非常出色，他们注意交易。 Vogel上尉说：“如果客户将这笔钱拿出并将其放入购买卡或将其放入加密货币ATM中，他们将被骗取，他们将永远损失这笔钱。”

The captain mentioned that the subjects who usually target older people with these scams and that they usually come up with different stories to get the victims interested.

船长提到，通常以这些骗局为目标的受试者，他们通常会提出不同的故事来使受害者感兴趣。

“Maybe it’s the Social Security Administration. Maybe it’s Microsoft indicating that you have a virus, a terrible virus, on your computer, and you need to jump through these hoops to get rid of the virus,” Captain Vogel said. But he stressed that most of these things are just scare tactics, noting that their perfect victims are the older population because they get a little more scared than other age ranges in the population.

“也许是社会保障局。也许是微软表示您在计算机上有病毒，可怕的病毒，您需要跳过这些箍以摆脱病毒，” Vogel上尉说。但是他强调，其中大多数只是吓人的策略，并指出他们的完美受害者是老年人，因为他们比人口中的其他年龄范围更害怕。

In the second case, the victim wanted to solve an issue about a device and input a search string to find the number of Microsoft support on Google. After getting a response from the search engine, she clicked on the first entry in the search without scrutinizing it. Instead of getting through to Microsoft support, she was calling a scammer in what is known as “search engine poisoning.”

在第二种情况下，受害者想解决有关设备的问题并输入搜索字符串，以在Google上找到Microsoft支持的数量。从搜索引擎获得响应后，她单击了搜索中的第一个条目，而无需仔细检查。她没有获得微软的支持，而是在被称为“搜索引擎中毒”中称为骗子。

In this case, the victim was asked to withdraw $40,000 to protect her account from being emptied. The fake Microsoft call center employee told her that she had a virus on her computer which was obtained from child porn from China and an illegal drug website from the same place. She was told that these websites were going to withdraw the money unless she did it by herself.

在这种情况下，要求受害人撤回40,000美元以保护其帐户免于被清空。假的微软呼叫中心的员工告诉她，她的计算机上有病毒，该病毒是从中国的儿童色情片获得的，并从同一地方获得了非法药物网站。她被告知，除非她自己做，否则这些网站将撤回这笔钱。

According to the Westlake police report, the victim went to a gas station that had a Bitcoin ATM and deposited $20,000. A clerk at the station noticed what was going on and tried to stop her but it was too late. Fortunately, she still had the other $20,000 with her.

根据西湖警方的报告，受害人去了一个拥有比特币ATM并存入20,000美元的加油站。车站的一个店员注意到发生了什么事，试图阻止她，但为时已晚。幸运的是，她还有其他20,000美元。

According to cyber analyst Alex Hamerstone, most of these scams start with a typical sense of urgency. He mentioned that scammers usually make it look like they are trying to help the victim evade a hack or an attack before they strike. “If someone’s calling you out of the blue, demanding money, threatening you, and it has to do with Bitcoin, it’s going to be a scam,” Hamerstone said.

根据网络分析师亚历克斯·哈默斯通（Alex Hamerstone）的说法，这些骗局大多数从典型的紧迫感开始。他提到骗子通常会使他们看起来像是在试图帮助受害者在袭击之前逃避攻击或攻击。 Hamerstone说：“如果有人叫您蓝色，索要钱，威胁您，这与比特币有关，那将是一个骗局。”

He added that the police will never call anybody before they initiate an arrest, meaning that if the police are going to arrest anyone, they will come to their location to effect the arrest. “There are very few absolutes in the world, but 100% the IRS will never take your tax bill. They’ll never take your tax payment using gift cards,” he added.

他补充说，警察在逮捕逮捕之前永远不会打电话给任何人，这意味着，如果警察要逮捕任何人，他们将来到他们的位置进行逮捕。他补充说：“世界上绝对的绝对数量很少，但是美国国税局（IRS）永远不会收取您的税单。他们永远不会使用礼品卡接受您的税款。”

In another incident that occurred in Westlake, the police mentioned that a victim was asked to deposit $5,500 into a Bitcoin ATM at Sam’s convenience store after receiving a call from the Social Security Administration. According to reports, the owner has promised to remove the machine within the next month.

在西湖（Westlake）发生的另一起事件中，警方提到受害者被要求在接到社会保障局的电话后，将5,500美元存入山姆便利店的比特币ATM。据报道，所有者已承诺在下个月内卸下机器。

“I just advise you to be very wary of anything that directs you to buy gift cards or put cash into an ATM,” Captain Vogel said. He also added that most of all transactions that have to do with crypto ATMs always end up being scams.

沃格尔上尉说：“我只是建议您对任何指导您购买礼品卡或将现金投入ATM的事物保持警惕。”他还补充说，与加密货币ATM有关的所有交易中的大多数总是最终都是骗局。