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 ...

Scammers impersonating Federal Trade Commission employees are calling consumers, claiming they owe money or face legal ...

San Antonio police are warning residents about Bitcoin ATM scams as the city moves to put fraud warnings directly in front of ...

Bitcoin was supposed to cut out the middleman. Instead, it's become a middleman's dream for scammers. In 2025 alone, Americans lost more than $330 million to bitcoin ATM scams, according to FBI data, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stacy Hazinski received one of those annoying text messages that claimed she was about to be charged $114.02 for something she ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) -Following a surge of complaints, the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection launched a two-year investigation into bitcoin ATM-style kiosks operating across the state and ...

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 wanted to know ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. LIVINGSTON — James Brown, Montana’s state auditor and commissioner of securities and insurance, ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) -- An ITEAM investigation in collaboration with ABC News is exposing scams involving Bitcoin ATMs - kiosks that are popping up across North Carolina and throughout the country.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses perpetrated using bitcoin ATM machines, a marked uptick over previous years as the ...