PANews reported on May 14 that on May 13, the New Hampshire Department of Treasury issued a notice reminding residents to be wary of Bitcoin scam calls impersonating government officials. Scammers use fake official phone numbers, falsely claiming that the victim's identity has been stolen, and induce them to transfer Bitcoin to "protect their funds." The Department of Treasury emphasized that government agencies will never request payment or transfers in Bitcoin and advised the public to hang up immediately if they receive such calls and report them to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
A week before this warning was issued (May 6), New Hampshire had just passed the nation's first "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" law, allowing the state treasury to allocate up to 5% of public funds to cryptocurrencies with a market cap exceeding $50 billion, such as Bitcoin.
