According to Bitcoin.com, on May 13, the New Hampshire Treasury Department 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 "protective funds" via Bitcoin. The state treasury emphasized that government agencies will never request payments or transfers in Bitcoin and advised the public to hang up immediately and report such calls 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" bill, allowing the state treasury to allocate up to 5% of public funds to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with a market value exceeding $500 billion.