Federal authorities say Americans lost a record $333 million in bitcoin ATM scams over the last year, topping 2024's total of ...

Crypto ATMs let users buy or sell cryptocurrencies with cash. Learn how they work, fees involved, regulations, and global adoption.

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 ...

Americans in 2024 lost nearly $250 million to scams that used Bitcoin ATMs 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 ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that scammers have defrauded Americans of more than $300 million in 2025 through ...

The FBI says fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses perpetrated using bitcoin ATM ...

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 ...

BUCKS CO., Pa. (WPVI) -- Crypto scammers are increasingly using what are called Bitcoin ATMS to carry out their cons. Bitcoin ATMs don't operate like a traditional ATM. Instead of withdrawing money, ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...