My boss called me, frantically telling him that his identity was stolen, and the U.S. Treasury was telling him to empty his business account and put it all in Bitcoin. I am 99% sure this is a scam.

He said his computer locked up, so he "called Microsoft," and they put him in touch with the "U.S. Treasury," who told him there have been a half a dozen accounts opened in his name in Texas that have "funneled over a million dollars into drugs and terrorism over the last two months."

I think he went to the wrong porn website and got one of those ransomeware viruses. But he said he's certain it's not a scam. Have there been similar things like this floating around? A quick Google search didn't really show anything either way.

Update(?) I think he backed out at the last minute? I'll know more tomorrow

Update 2: Boss got scammed out of a few grand. He's filed police reports and everything. There's not much chance he'll get the money back, but it could have been a lot worse

Update 3: currently in a big fight with my boyfriend on why he shouldn't take out a 24% interest loan to pay off his 0%-19% debts. Does anyone else want to trade lives?