The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that Bitcoin ATM fraud reached new highs in 2025. According to the ...

The FBI says fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses perpetrated using bitcoin ATM ...

Crypto ATMs let users buy or sell cryptocurrencies with cash. Learn how they work, fees involved, regulations, and global adoption.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 winter months bring worry to authorities — because the number of scams you’re susceptible to increases.  Recently, ...

Bitcoin and crypto ATMs faced heightened scrutiny in 2025, as authorities and lawmakers tried to confront a growing number of ...

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 ...

In a typical scam, fraudsters will convince their victims that they must make a payment or safeguard their cash by inserting ...

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 ...