OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Scammers are now posting fake social media ads featuring a deepfake police officer image in an attempt to discredit warning stickers placed on Bitcoin ATM machines across the Omaha metro, according to Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson.
The stickers were required under an Omaha city ordinance that followed a series of investigations into scams in which victims received phony threats of arrest and were directed to send money through Bitcoin kiosks.
Couple nearly lost $9,000 to scammers
Last fall, Joyce and Jimmy Gamble received a call from someone posing as a police officer.
“I was scared because they were going to put Jimmy in jail if we didn’t come up with this money because they had not one but two warrants,” Joyce Gamble said…