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I've heard that Bitcoin phone scams are making their way around. The scams supposedly call and ask you to pay debts or IRS taxes with an alternate cryptocurrency/Bitcoin while others try to get you to "invest" in a fake coin. The main thing is they seem to be targeting people over the phone.

Has this actually happened to anyone?

I first heard about this kind of fraud. I think many want to get money in an easy way until the crypto currency is accepted by many states. But how do they know my phone number?

If bitcoin has been inaugurated by all countries and its popularity can already be felt by the general public, the possibility of such a crime could happen, but the party committing the crime is of course originating from the same country because they can know the local phone,so the target will be randomly selected to be victims of such crimes.

I think this can happen in this age, but now I have not seen you, please update the latest information to avoid people.

I'm seeing more and more airdrops asking for phone numbers and requiring KYC/AML with personal identification. It's a dangerous trend and I think if you participate in such an airdrop you should be aware of the risk involved of sharing your personal information. Don't be surprised when scammers use your gullibility and greed against you.

Was it the first time I'd heard of such a scam, because the so-called phone scam if someone paid for encrypted money? ???

I once called a friend from an unknown phone. He introduced himself as a tax officer and began to demand appearance in the appropriate department, to name the amounts that I own in crypto-currencies. For an instant I was surprised. But he did not introduce himself and was rude to me. So I quickly exposed him. But everyone will not be prevented from knowing their rights for possible communication.

Now the scam means endless. Although I have not encountered such a situation, but I think bitcoin fraud phone is very likely to happen.

I believe that it is not criminally prosecuted in a lot of countries, so it is very sneaky.

I've been hearing that Bitcoin phone scams are making their way around. These scams supposedly call and ask you to pay debts or IRS taxes in Bitcoin or others to purchase Bitcoin.
Has this actually happened to anyone?

That is surely a scam or fraudulent activities,nothing new with these schemes like what my friends were receiving from the past few months.These people probably are the same people hunting cryprocurrency traders just to be safe with these people you call the IRS or anyone telling you who they are.Theres an incident with my of my friend that someone called him and wants him to wire transfer a huge amount to pay his debts after he called the caller's number it is registered to someone else's phone number that is outside the U.S.

I have never heard of crypto related phone scams. I mean where will they get our numbers from? Can only happen if scammers are targeting you and you have posted your telephone number publically or maybe a service you are using sold it or got hacked. But irrespective of how they will get your number, I think only a crypto noob will get caught in such a trap.

If its about IRS then its related to the United States and if anybody should be targeted, it then means your information provided at some point have been compromised for them to that you have interest in crypto. One reason why one needs to be more careful where you drop your contact details online and where you fill and all sorts of verification processes. I have not been contacted, but I think its just common sense just like the amount of PMs sent on the forum by bots or newbies advertising some forms of ICOs that don't even exist. What you do is just to ignore. No one is making you do such at gun point.

the country where I live deception with that mode has not happened yet, but fraud with this type of calling is the most mainstream thing in this country

no wonder that already and telephone scammers have appeared! where only such people are taken by vile !? once again I am convinced that in such work, and in any other one one must be very attentive and with a clear head!

I've never heard of this, but it's so stupid of that person to believe it instantly without knowing the source of the caller.

Pretty stupid Scam. This trick will take place with elderly people, they suffer from such. But the demand to pay cryptocurrency on the phone of a person who is engaged in it is very silly, in my opinion. Personally, I would have sent very very far away.

Why someone in IRS would call you randomly?we are using cryptocurrencies for out anonimity and for our own privacy these is why i dont tell my friends that i am into cyptpcurrency,because you will never know when a great danger will come.Best thing to do is to ignore these calls,do not entertain them to give you a peace of mind you may want to change your phone number.

This is an obvious fraud and been used for a long time but now they have upgraded and using cryptocurrency as payment. LOL Scammers and fraudsters are now upgrading their style.

Yea, there are a lot of phone scam calls are happening in the last time. It also happened to me yesterday morning, a women asked me if I want to buy Bitcoins for a cheaper price. I just told her that I can use exchanges to buy Bitcoins and I dont know why I should buy at an suspicious phone call!

If someone is asking you to pay their debt, have a take a look first if you do really have just be aware and if you want to join an airdrop and it's asking you to put your mobile number well just find a better airdrop.

I do not understand how people believe in these stories? When you make transactions and transactions not on your own - this should be suspicious

For the first time I hear from this kind of fraud. You have to be a complete idiot to believe in this. This is only the elderly people can be so deceived. But not a young, sensible person.

This is expected to happen because BTC's value driven these people to do such things,BTC is more valued than gold today people with bad motives will find a way to steal your bitcoins.Cryptocurrency community is growing fast thats why these people starting to adjust their fraudulent activities,so if you ask me dont mind most of these calls.It is better to live in a peaceful way,do not let your friends know that you are into bitcoins,you will never know when will calamities in your life will come.

Yes its true other fake apps like bitcoin wallet ang put there bitcoins there and they cant get back much better to make an bitcoin wallet to websites.

Yes in our country btc is used to advertise scams and they make you invest telling youll double your money in a span of days, and in the end found out to be another pyramiding scam.