The Meade County Sheriff’s Workplace says bandits are using cryptocurrency to scam residents:
Based on the sheriff’s workplace, scammers are contacting people and claiming they have to submit bond for a Meade County jail inmate utilizing a Bitcoin kiosk or different nontraditional fee strategies. Officers say this can be a fraud and that no respectable authorities company conducts enterprise that manner.
The sheriff’s workplace emphasised it doesn’t settle for funds by means of cryptocurrency, present playing cards, Bitcoin kiosks, or different unconventional strategies. Legislation enforcement enterprise, officers mentioned, is carried out head to head, inside county buildings, utilizing acknowledged fee choices.
Bond funds in Meade County are accepted solely on the Clerk of Courts Workplace or on the Meade County Jail. Any request to pay bond elsewhere, particularly below strain or risk of authorized penalties, ought to be thought-about a rip-off [Tamara Chibe, “Meade County Sheriff Warns of Bitcoin Bond Scam,” KOTA-TV, 2026.01.22].
Hooray for Meade County not taking fee in pretend cash! Native, state, and federal authorities businesses have an obligation to conduct enterprise solely within the official foreign money of the realm, good previous United States of America {dollars}. Upholding that responsibility and the nationwide foreign money will assist tamp down scams… as will following a easy rule: if somebody you don’t know asks you for cryptocurrency, it’s a scam!
