Dave Lieber 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 ...
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 ...
Partnerships with convenience stores like Circle K have fueled the rapid growth of crypto ATM networks, creating fertile ...
Elderly victims are routinely being targeted in Bitcoin ATM scams, here is what to know about the fraud so you can help ...
As cryptocurrency machines spread across the country, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely last line of defense against crypto fraud. Last month, Avalon Hardy, a gas station clerk at a ...
Circle K has made millions by renting space to crypto ATMs – even amid mounting evidence that the machines are playing a key role in international fraud schemes.
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 ...