A Coconut Creek woman lost several thousand dollars in a Bitcoin scam, authorities said.
Con artists recently targeted the 74-year-old resident with pop-up warnings on her computer claiming she had been hacked, according to Coconut Creek Police.
The pop-up messages directed her to a phony phone number that the scammers had cloned. When the victim called the number, the fraudsters pretended to be agents with the Federal Trade Commission, police said…