A 70-year-old Omaha man is out $200,000 because of a Bitcoin scam involving a purported Chinese pornography outfit.
According to an Omaha police report, the scam began May 27 when the man got an alert on his computer screen from a scammer posing as Microsoft telling him to call the phone number displayed. The man told police he immediately called the number.
The scammer, who has not been identified, answered and told the man a “pornography outfit” in China was going to take $32,000 out of the man’s bank account if he didn’t act immediately.
The scammer told the man he needed to get $32,000 out of his account and send the money in Bitcoin. The man complied.
The man continued to send money, including from his individual retirement account, to the scammer via Bitcoin until Friday. Days later, the man went to his bank to withdraw an additional $40,000. Bank employees told the man he was a scam victim and to stop sending money.
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The man told police he lost about $200,000 to the scam.
The Bitcoin scam appeared to use several tactics Ryan Sothan, who is the outreach coordinator with the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, outlined to The World-Herald in October. The scammer came up with a scenario too bad to be believed and used high-pressure tactics to have the man send money through an unconventional payment method.
The Attorney General’s Office and the Better Business Bureau encourage scam victims to report scams to their local law enforcement agencies. The BBB also encourages people to report scams to the organization’s scam tracker online at bbb.org/scamtracker.
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