In 2025 alone, Americans lost more than $330 million to bitcoin ATM scams, according to FBI data, a sharp rise fueled by ...
The email looked like a surprise charge of nearly $500 from Best Buy, along with a customer service line to help with any questions. The man who answered the line quickly acknowledged the charge was a ...
In 2025, Gillette and Campbell County residents lost more than $3 million to crypto ATM scams. That’s according to Gillette ...
Bitcoin ATMs were supposed to make digital money as easy as grabbing cash from a corner machine. Instead, they have become one of the fastest growing tools for fraud, with the FBI now tying them to a ...
Just inside the front door of a Circle K convenience store, the district manager glared at a small kiosk. Yet another elderly victim had just fed thousands of dollars into the device after being ...
The FBI reported that bitcoin ATM fraud increased in 2025, resulting in $333 million stolen from over 10,000 victims.
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 ...
Alabama State Representative Russell Bedsole introduced a bill in the state legislature aimed at curbing widespread fraud ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There’s a remarkable new report from the CNN Investigates team about crypto ATMs, ...
James Brown: The big issues that I’m dealing with — and some of them I was aware of when I was on the campaign trail — are increased insurance rates for all lines of insurance, the difficulty that ...
Idaho's Attorney General is warning citizens to stay alert and not fall for cryptocurrency ATM scams. On Tuesday, Attorney General Raúl Labrador released a statement warning Idaho families about a ...
A 24-year-old woman in Tampa has been arrested for allegedly running an ATM fraud scheme that investigators say played out entirely on social media — using real bank accounts, fake checks, and willing ...