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Cryptocurrency Scam Calls Increase in Jefferson City | News from Mid-Missouri

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According to a press release, the Jefferson City Police Department is seeing an increase in calls from scammers tricking people into depositing funds into cryptocurrency kiosks.

Scammers may claim to be business owners or from law enforcement or federal agencies. They can threaten to arrest, fine or deport people who receive these calls if they do not immediately pay the alleged debt. The goal is simply to scare citizens into paying, the Jefferson City Police Department says.

Scammers can make any name or number appear on caller ID, which is called spoofing. Even if it appears that the call is coming from a government agency or that the call is coming from a local number, it could still be a scammer calling from anywhere.

Real law enforcement and federal agencies will not call people to threaten them with arrest or payment over the phone to order someone to deposit funds into an ATM or ATM, the police department said.

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