I've heard that Bitcoin phone scams are making their way around. The scams supposedly call and ask you to pay debts or IRS taxes with an alternate cryptocurrency/Bitcoin while others try to get you to "invest" in a fake coin. The main thing is they seem to be targeting people over the phone.
Has this actually happened to anyone?
Pretty stupid Scam. This trick will take place with elderly people, they suffer from such. But the demand to pay cryptocurrency on the phone of a person who is engaged in it is very silly, in my opinion. Personally, I would have sent very very far away.