Officials say bitcoin ATMs are often used by predators who force victims to send untraceable money to scammers.

As cryptocurrency machines spread across the country, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely last line of defense against crypto fraud. Last month, Avalon Hardy, a gas station clerk at a ...

Consumer advisor Clark Howard warns that scammers are convincing victims to deposit money into Bitcoin or crypto ATMs with ...

Nearly a dozen former employees of crypto ATM companies operating in Canada told CBC News that fraudsters tricking scam ...

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 her bank, and she thought a machine where she was in the process of ...

Last year, Mellissa McKie wired Isanti County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Leatham as much money as she could get her hands on in a day. She thought paying $2,000 through cryptocurrency kiosks, in a gas station ...

A new and sophisticated scam is making its way across the country — and yes, even into small towns like Grand Rapids. The ...

Two Massachusetts women recently lost a combined $6,700 to a jury duty scam that utilized Bitcoin ATMs, a sheriff warns.

Beware of crypto ATM scams targetting Southwest Florida residents. Scammers pose as law enforcement and instruct victims to use crypto ATMs. Victims lose large sums, with hundreds of thousands ...

Now, a new kind of money, Bitcoin, is challenging what we’ve always believed about currency. It isn’t controlled by banks or printed by governments.

Federal law enforcement officials said ATMs used to purchase Bitcoin are often used by predators who force victims to send ...