From fake PayPal refunds to Uber ride thefts, cryptocurrency fraud is hitting Arizona hard. Learn how new state laws and police investigators are fighting back.

Stacy Hazinski received one of those annoying text messages that claimed she was about to be charged $114.02 for something she didn't buy. So she called the number, supposedly for her Apple Pay ...

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, ...

A Raleigh woman says she was pulled into a complicated, detailed scam that used fear and trust to prey on her. Looking back, Pauline Miller said she can't believe what she did. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield Police Department (SPD) is warning about an increase in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs. A press release from SPD says the scam typically targets elderly victims, who ...

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.

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 ...

There has been a "massive" surge in the amount of money consumers have lost to scams involving Bitcoin ATM machines, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The amount of money lost has ...

FILE- PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 09: A Hermes Bitcoin ATM stands next to a traditional ATM in a gas station on December 9, 2024 in Pasadena, California. The price of BitCoin has skyrocketed ...

Bitcoin ATMs are a rapidly growing presence in the United States and, some experts say, a rapidly growing cybercrime menace. ATMs dealing in bitcoin are similar to their cash cousins: there are PINs ...

No one — repeat, no one — needs to be so fearful that they're stuffing tens of thousands of dollars in a box and standing at home or in a parking lot waiting for a stranger to pick up the cash in ...

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 ...