Bitcoin, the digital currency and virtual payment system, has grown increasingly popular in recent years. The top cryptocurrency token holders have made billions of dollars off the digital asset.

Scams tied to ATMs using Bitcoin have surged tenfold in the past five years, according to Nevada officials. The Secretary of ...

Bitcoin ATMs are becoming increasingly common, popping up in gas stations, convenience stores, smoke shops and grocery stores. Five years ago, there were roughly 1,000 cryptocurrency ATMs in Texas.

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.

A FAVORITE TOOL FOR SCAMMERS. SCAMMERS MORE AND MORE OFTEN ARE USING ATMS TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. MANY OF THESE SCAMS START WITH A CALL OR A MESSAGE ABOUT SOMETHING SUPPOSEDLY WRONG. THE SCAMMER MIGHT ...

The sister of one of my golfing buddies received a threatening call telling her a warrant had been issued for her arrest. She panicked and followed the caller’s instructions to deposit $5,500 in a ...

Washington state's Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) has ordered Bitcoin ATM operator Coinme to halt all money ...

Americans in 2024 lost nearly $250 million to scams that used Bitcoin ATMs 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 ...

Call it a diabolical new twist on an old scam: ATM fraudsters are turning to bitcoin. Data the Federal Trade Commission provided to NBC News show the amount of money consumers have reported losing to ...

The Robocoin kiosk lets users convert cash to bitcoins in minutes, not days. Oct. 30, 2013— -- Bitcoins, now valued at over $200 a piece, were seen as the currency of the black market, back when ...