District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb has filed suit against Athena Bitcoin, Inc., one of the nation’s largest operators of cryptocurrency ATMs, accusing the company of profiting from ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans lost nearly $250 million to Bitcoin ATM scams in 2024 ©Image Credit: Unsplash / John Paul Cuvinar When 85-year-old Fran ...

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of state legal actions against one of the world’s largest crypto ATM operators.

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 ...