Nevada Secretary of State warns of Bitcoin ATM scams where fraudsters promise high-return investments to steal money through ...

U.S. consumers lost nearly $250 million in 2024 to fraud involving Bitcoin ATMs, more than double the losses of the previous ...

The median loss to this scam, across all ages, is $10,000. In the first six months of 2024, Americans lost $65 million to Bitcoin ATM scams. The machines offer an easy way for people to get into ...

There has been a "massive" surge in the amount of money consumers have lost to scams involving Bitcoin ATM machines, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The amount of money lost has ...

Scams tied to ATMs using Bitcoin have surged tenfold in the past five years, according to Nevada officials. The Secretary of ...

Nevada Secretary of State’s Office issued a warning Tuesday about an increasing number of scams related to cryptocurrency ...

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 ...

Dave Lieber After last month’s Watchdog report on the Fort Worth woman conned into depositing $10,000 into a convenience store’s bitcoin ATM, several readers reached out wanting to learn more. They ...

The sister of one of my golfing buddies received a threatening call telling her a warrant had been issued for her arrest. She panicked and followed the caller’s instructions to deposit $5,500 in a ...

In the last two years, victims in Clay County have lost $3 million to scammers who fabricate fees for missing jury duty and ...

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 ...