Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s how the grift works like clockwork. Scammers call pretending to be government officials, bank representatives, or even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo Cryptocurrency ATM machines are a magnet for scammers who dupe unwitting victims into sending ...

Bitcoin ATMs were supposed to make digital money as easy as grabbing cash from a corner machine. Instead, they have become one of the fastest growing tools for fraud, with the FBI now tying them to a ...

Bitcoin ATM fraud is a growing threat in Houston and nationwide. Awareness and quick action can help protect consumers and ...

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 ...