Victims are being preyed on and instead of sending gift cards - are now being directed to pay scammers using Bitcoin kiosks.

Scams took a new form in 2025 say experts - and this time Bitcoin was the most popular way by crooks. Bitcoin hovered at ...

Bitcoin billionaire Chen Zhi has been arrested in Asia over a massive $11 billion "pig butchering" crypto scam.

Bitcoin ATMs were supposed to make digital money as easy as grabbing cash from a corner machine. Instead, they have become ...

An elderly couple was swindled out of their $1.3 million retirement fund by scammers pretending to be representatives from ...

Police investigations have found that local Bitcoin ATMs have collected several hundred thousand dollars from scam victims.

Local authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for scams this holiday season. The Perrysburg Township Police Department said it has gotten at least five reports of scams in the past week ...

Scammers impersonating Amazon, TD Bank, and the FTC convinced retirees to convert $1.3 million into bitcoin and gold. The ...

Last year, Mellissa McKie wired Isanti County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Leatham as much money as she could get her hands on in a day. She thought paying $2,000 through cryptocurrency kiosks, in a gas station ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...