American dollars and investment firms are also used in scams Anything of value will be used in scams That was the whole thing about derivatives in the 2008 crash

I bet bitcoin itself isn’t used often in scams, what you see on the hotline is “the promise of bitcoin” being held out for a scam that uses dollars, not bitcoin. Using bitcoin in a scam is like saying, “give me a briefcase full of money, but make sure to put a gps tracker in it!”