An ordinance before the City Council would ban Bitcoin machines in the city after Peabody residents have lost well over $100,000 in scams involving these machines.

The ill-famed grandchild scam, which involves fraudsters convincing elderly victims that their grandson or granddaughter is ...

Minnesota cities are starting to regulate or outright ban the machines, which charge hefty and opaque fees, as fraudsters ...

The Martin County Sheriff's Office is on the hunt for a woman who scammed one of its residents out of over $23,000 after she ...

There’s a remarkable new report from the CNN Investigates team about how crypto ATMs, devices that may be at your corner store and which allow people to exchange money for cryptocurrency such as ...

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Bitcoin ATM machines that convert cash into cryptocurrency have become the favorite tool of scammers, many operating from overseas. The I-Team has been working with ABC News on ...

"While it's clear that cryptocurrency fraud is on the rise, so is our resolve to stop it," Lincoln Police Chief Michon Morrow said.

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — Jacksonville officers have apprehended a man known as the “Smokey Suspect,” thanks to valuable tips from the community. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) said that ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating the theft of an ATM that was stolen in the early hours of Monday by a group of masked men. The ATM was stolen from the City Heights condominiums at 375 Ralph ...

Cryptocurrency is still fairly new and still very strange to many. Even adults who are pretty savvy with money and investments can struggle to understand how it works. So, we decided to put ChatGPT to ...