Bitcoin was supposed to cut out the middleman. Instead, it’s become a middleman’s dream for scammers. In 2025 alone, ...

A Mesa senior lost thousands of dollars to a scammer, but Arizona's new cryptocurrency fraud prevention law is helping her ...

When Fran Bates received a call that her bank account had been hacked, the 85-year-old wanted nothing more than to protect her savings. So she listened to the instructions given to her on the other ...

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 ...

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 ...