The “fraud” is just a Trojan horse. The banning won’t stop with ATMs. “A canary in a coal mine” is a metaphor for an early ...

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 ...

The FTC warns that bitcoin ATM fraud is soaring. In the U.S, losses from scams via crypto ATMs exceeded $120 million in 2023. 74% of cryptocurrency ATMs globally are managed by just 10 operators. In ...

That unassuming kiosk in your local grocery store is a portal to fraud, regulators warn.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicates a 1,000 % increase in ...

After last month's Watchdog report on the Fort Worth woman conned into depositing $10,000 into a convenience store's bitcoin ATM, several readers reached out wanting to learn more. They wanted to know ...

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, ...

BitXatm, fournisseur allemand de distributeurs automatiques de devises numériques, a annoncé une nouvelle mise à niveau de son produit ATM Sumo Pro existant. Baptisée « Smart Remote Control », cette ...

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 ...