US Retailers Targeted by Bomb Threat Scammers Demanding Bitcoin

Recently, individual retailers in the United States have fallen victim to scammers sending bomb threats. Among these retailers are Kroger, Target, Walmart, Amazon’s Whole Foods Market, and many others. These threats are accompanied by demands for ransoms in the form of gift cards, Bitcoin (BTC), or money, with callers adding they would detonate bombs if their demands were not met. The Bomb Threat Touching Bitcoin This trend has been ongoing in the US for several months now and law enforcement agencies are currently investigating the situation. To date, certain stores in New Mexico and Wisconsin have already been affected by such bomb threats. Some of these retail stores have confirmed that receiving such random bomb threats is an unusual event and appears to be the latest form of extortion targeting retailers. A worker from Whole Foods Market in the suburbs of Chicago received a call from a scammer demanding BTC […] The post US Retailers Targeted by Bomb Threat Scammers Demanding Bitcoin appeared first on COINTURK NEWS.