Bitcoin ATM Scams Cost Americans Nearly $250M In 2024. Here's How To Avoid Falling Victim To Similar Scams

U.S. consumers lost nearly $250 million in 2024 to fraud involving Bitcoin ATMs, more than double the losses of the previous ...
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Bitcoin ATMs increasingly used by scammers to target victims, critics say

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 ...

Texas woman, 85, was moments from losing $23K in Bitcoin ATM scam when ‘guardian angel’ saved her — here’s the $250M warning all Americans should hear

In September, Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb sued Athena Bitcoin, saying the company’s own data shows 93% ...
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Bitcoin ATMs increasingly used by scammers to target victims, critics say

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 ...