Bitcoin was supposed to cut out the middleman. Instead, it’s become a middleman’s dream for scammers. In 2025 alone, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As interest in cryptocurrency increases in the United States, the number of ATMs which facilitate cryptocurrency transactions is as well. With that convenience in place, scammers have emerged. They ...

Instead of money orders or gift cards, people are now handing over their money to scammers through Bitcoin ATMs. Instead of money orders or gift cards, people are now handing over their money to ...

No one — repeat, no one — needs to be so fearful that they're stuffing tens of thousands of dollars in a box and standing at home or in a parking lot waiting for a stranger to pick up the cash in ...

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 ...