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Dozens of bomb threats by ‘Bitcoin scammers’ hit several US states
Scores of similar emailed bomb threats have been reported to police in multiple US states, prompted panic and evacuations as the culprits demanded payment in the form of Bitcoin while threatening to otherwise cause “many victims.”
Threats were made mostly via-email to seemingly random locations like schools, businesses, stores, attorneys offices and even a Zoo, police said.
So far, threats have been reported in New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Utah, California and Mississippi.
Several area businesses are receiving what appears to be a robo-email saying there is a bomb threat to their business unless they pay money in Bitcoins. We have found no credible evidence any of these emails are authentic. See CRPD Facebook for more details. #Scam
— Cedar Rapids Police (@CR_Police) December 13, 2018
Police in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said they had "found no credible evidence" that any of the email threats in the area were "authentic."
The emails claim that an explosive device is hidden and "covered up carefully" in the building in question. If it is detonated, the author writes, there will be "many victims."
The Bitcoin-spam-scammers have moved on from fake blackmail threats to fake bomb threats. So far no-one's paid anything to the address, and I suspect it'll stay that way. pic.twitter.com/N5MOdmu8Jm
— Tom Scott (@tomscott) December 13, 2018
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