Coconut Creek police are warning residents about a jury duty scam after a local woman lost several hundred dollars to a caller posing as a law enforcement officer.
According to police, the caller told the woman she had missed jury duty and faced arrest unless she paid a fine. He instructed her to deposit money into a Bitcoin machine, which she did before realizing she had been scammed.
Police said officers would never threaten arrest over the phone or direct someone to a Bitcoin machine to pay a fine.
Anyone receiving a similar call should hang up, police advised.
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