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 cryptocurrency, and they're increasingly showing up in grocery ...

A woman was told by the con artists that someone was sending her money to Poker.com. She doesn't gamble. One con artist pretended to be from Apple; another impersonated someone from her credit union.

Two cybercrime victims won't be able to recover their money, seized from a third-party cryptocurrency company, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled. The decisions, issued Friday, May 1, involve two Iowans ...

(TNS) — Jim Meduri answered a terrifying phone call in January from a man pretending to be his son. The caller, who sounded on the verge of tears, said he'd been in a car accident. Meduri was ...

A lot has changed since Brandon Mintz bought his first bitcoin on what he describes as a “crappy website” in 2013. “Before Covid… there were a lot of new entrants into the bitcoin ATM industry, a lot ...

Based on FBI data, the threat of scam-related losses involving cryptocurrency ATMs and kiosks has been growing with 10,956 complaints filed and $246.7 million in stolen money reported in 2024. Critics ...