The caller told Buentello that if he wanted to get his son out, he needed to rush to his local grocery store and send $5,000 through a bitcoin ATM ... and avoided the scam. According to the ...

about a scam involving physical ransom letters sent via the U.S. Postal Service. These letters, falsely claiming to be from the ransomware group BianLian, demand Bitcoin payments ranging from $ ...

Scammer directs tearful, panicked victim to Bitcoin ... a dating app. On March 3, a Deltona man reported he met someone on an online dating site. The scamming suspect claimed to live in California ...

Shinall said the scammers also told the man to take his money to a Bitcoin machine, similar to an ATM. She said it is ...

“They talked her into removing money from our savings and checking account and putting it into a Bitcoin machine ... a federal investigation since the scam involved money connected to ...

THREE RIVERS, MI – Scammers are targeting businesses by attempting to dupe overnight employees into depositing daily cash into Bitcoin machines. The Three Rivers Police Department, located in ...

So from that target group the sheriff has recruited volunteers to check bitcoin machines for the required scam warning sticker, and they’re trained on how to give store managers a warning.