Recovering funds is usually impossible, but a popular crypto vendor is paying nearly $2M to victims.

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 ...

A Mesa senior lost thousands of dollars to a scammer, but Arizona's new cryptocurrency fraud prevention law is helping her ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel warns that scammers are using Bitcoin ATMs to defraud Michiganders. The Office of the Attorney General says Bitcoin ATM scams targeting ...

Grand Prairie, Texas — Joseph Buentello, 80, was cruising through retirement when he received a call erroneously claiming his son was in jail. "I was scared, I hit the panic button and I let my panic ...

FILE- PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 09: A Hermes Bitcoin ATM stands next to a traditional ATM in a gas station on December 9, 2024 in Pasadena, California. The price of BitCoin has skyrocketed ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WBNG) -- Attorney General Dave Sunday said scammers now use Bitcoin ATMs, or “BTMs,” to scam people. Officials said scammers target consumers with urgent messaging, such as “protect your ...

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 ...