Hall County Sheriffโs Office (HCSO) property crimes investigators are out with a new proactive measure they hope will prevent potential victims from falling prey to scammers demanding payment through cryptocurrency machines.
HCSO FACEBOOK POST:
“While members of the community have likely heard of or had a phone call from a scammer talking about missed jury duty, the cryptocurrency payment element is something investigators are seeing more of.
Investigator Cody Davenport recently spearheaded a project to ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐. The hopes are that potential victims will read the signs and realize theyโre on the phone with a scammer before they purchase crypto on the machine and deposit it into the criminalโs virtual wallet.
The signs come at no cost to retailers who have one of these machines installed.”
Click here to view a video about this: (20+) Facebook