{"id":65819,"date":"2025-12-31T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65819"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:01:31","slug":"bitcoin-atm-scams-skyrocket-in-2025-americans-defrauded-of-over-333-million-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65819","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ATM Scams Skyrocket In 2025, Americans Defrauded Of Over $333 Million: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation\u00a0revealed that scammers have defrauded Americans\u00a0of more than $300 million\u00a0in 2025 through <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) ATMs, according to a report published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trend Is \u2018Not Slowing Down\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The FBI has observed a \u201cclear and constant rise\u201d in fraudulent transactions involving cryptocurrency kiosks, a trend that is \u201cnot slowing down,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/scammers-notched-333-million-bitcoin-atm-scams-2025\/story?id=128526877\">reported<\/a>\u00a0ABC News, quoting a bureau spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Losses caused by ATM fraudsters in 2024 amounted to approximately $250 million. This figure has surged to $333.5 million from January to November 2025, according to the bureau\u2019s data accessed by ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Benzinga contacted the FBI to corroborate these figures. The story will be updated once they respond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/top-5-bitcoin-and-crypto-scams\">Top 5 &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49643926\/bitcoin-atm-scams-skyrocket-in-2025-americans-defrauded-of-over-333-million-report?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" atm scams skyrocket in americans defrauded of over million: report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation\u00a0revealed that scammers have defrauded Americans\u00a0of more than $300 million\u00a0in 2025 through Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ATMs, according to a report published on Tuesday. Trend Is \u2018Not Slowing Down\u2019 The FBI has observed a \u201cclear and constant rise\u201d in fraudulent transactions involving cryptocurrency kiosks, a trend that is \u201cnot slowing down,\u201d\u00a0reported\u00a0ABC News, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-65819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}