Crypto automated teller machines (ATMs) represent stand-alone electronic kiosks from where individuals can sell and buy digital currencies with a debit card or in exchange for cash. The majority of ...

In the first six months of 2024, Americans lost $65 million to Bitcoin ATM scams. The machines offer an easy way for people to get into cryptocurrency, and they're increasingly showing up in grocery ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Massachusetts residents lost millions in crypto ATM fraud last year ...

As governments seek to ban the machines, bitcoin ATMs remain entwined with cryptocurrency industry's most mainstream players.

"Operators have faced increasing litigation and regulatory enforcement." ...

CONCERNS THAT DOESN’T GO FAR ENOUGH. I GOT AN EMAIL TELLING ME THAT MY SAVINGS ACCOUNT WAS AT RISK, AND I HAD $15,000 IN THERE, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT I HAD TO WITHDRAW IT AND DEPOSIT IT IN A BITCOIN ...

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 ...