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

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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 ATMs are used to steal money. Using some phishing email, a phone call or even a fake AI audio, targets are persuaded to send money using a Bitcoin ATM to the recipient's wallet address because ...

A retired teacher says a Bitcoin scam took her life savings — and now she might lose her home. The warning she wants everyone to hear. 7’s Heather Walker has this exclusive investigation. Karla Kelley ...

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency kiosk operator that the AG says facilitated cryptocurrency scams. According to the lawsuit, Bitcoin ...

The department has seen a worrying trend in relation to a phone scam that proposes the use of Bitcoin to pay a warrant. They posted an alert on Thursday. “A warrant can be paid by posting bond, but ...

As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with €10,000 in crisp banknotes, he ...

(KRON) – Grubhub users have reported receiving official-looking scam emails and app notifications encouraging recipients to send bitcoin to receive rewards as part of a limited-time holiday promotion, ...

A divorced investor’s tragic loss reveals how emotional manipulation, combined with AI technology, has weaponized crypto scams into a billion-dollar crime. A recently divorced Bitcoin investor lost ...