The Sheriff in Jasper County, Texas, located a little over 100 miles northeast of Houston, used a circular saw to break into a Bitcoin ATM after determining it was used for fraud. According to a ...

PEORIA, AZ — Arizona is looking to crack down on Bitcoin ATM scams, something that has been becoming more and more popular among scammers each year. House Bill 2387, introduced by state representative ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Shortly after her husband died, an 82-year-old woman, still grieving, transferred $20,000 into her checking account to pay insurance bills. When she powered up her computer, though, ...

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 ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses ...

The stories have played out across the country. In New Jersey, it was a 74-year-old retired art restorer contacted by a person purporting to be an Apple representative, advising her that her computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...