Bitcoin ATM fraud is a growing threat in Houston and nationwide. Awareness and quick action can help protect consumers and stop scammers.

Bitcoin, the digital currency and virtual payment system, has grown increasingly popular in recent years. The top cryptocurrency token holders have made billions of dollars off the digital asset.

If you or someone you know has been scammed, acting quickly is critical to improving your chances of recovering your money.

Real world bitcoin ATMs are playing a bigger role in the proliferation of online Bitcoin scams than ever before. Data from the Federal Trade Commission shows consumers reporting over $110 million in ...

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 ...

Popular scams include using a counterfeit device to access the ATM vestibule and placing a false façade on the front of the ...

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 ...