Crypto ATM scam enforcement has gone global: AUSTRAC suspended Cryptolink and took 96 machines offline, Bitcoin Depot filed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then comes the hook: rush to the nearest Bitcoin ATM with cash. The machines, designed for legitimate crypto purchases, become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June 2024, when Fran Bates entered a Fort Worth-area gas station, she thought the voice on the other end of the phone was from ...

Nationwide, the FBI estimates that in the first half of 2025, Americans lost $240 million to crypto ATM fraud. The Iowa AG’s office contacted the top 50 Bitcoin Depot users in Iowa between 2021 and ...

Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, recently filed a lawsuit against Athena Bitcoin Inc, a company that operates more than 4,000 Bitcoin ATMs across the country. The lawsuit ...

Last month, Avalon Hardy, a gas station clerk at a Stinker Store in Boise, Idaho, noticed something strange. Over the course of a week, three elderly women walked cautiously into the store and headed ...

The voice belonged to a scammer, and experts believe the call was likely made from overseas. The machine was a bitcoin ATM kiosk-- one of more than 45,000 across the country. And on that summer day in ...