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 ...

Grand Prairie, Texas — Joseph Buentello, 80, was cruising through retirement when he received a call erroneously claiming his son was in jail. "I was scared, I hit the panic button and I let my panic ...

The Robocoin kiosk lets users convert cash to bitcoins in minutes, not days. Oct. 30, 2013— -- Bitcoins, now valued at over $200 a piece, were seen as the currency of the black market, back when ...

Americans in 2024 lost nearly $250 million to scams that used Bitcoin ATMs 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 ...