{"id":66222,"date":"2026-01-04T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66222"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:01:33","slug":"bitcoin-atm-fraud-hits-record-high-333-million-pilfered-in-2025-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66222","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ATM Fraud Hits Record High, $333 Million Pilfered In 2025: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The FBI has revealed a drastic surge in <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>) ATM fraud, with swindlers making off with $333 million in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Scammers have been found to impersonate a bank or a company, flagging purported\u00a0suspicious activity on the victim\u2019s\u00a0account. They then instruct the victim\u00a0to deposit money into a\u00a0Bitcoin ATM to secure their funds or rectify the issue. The deposited money, however, lands in the scammers\u2019 account.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin ATMs have seen a rapid rise\u00a0in popularity in the US,\u00a0with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49681875\/bitcoin-atm-fraud-hits-record-high-333-million-pilfered-in-2025-report?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" atm fraud hits record high million pilfered in report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has revealed a drastic surge in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ATM fraud, with swindlers making off with $333 million in 2025. Scammers have been found to impersonate a bank or a company, flagging purported\u00a0suspicious activity on the victim\u2019s\u00a0account. They then instruct the victim\u00a0to deposit money into a\u00a0Bitcoin ATM to secure their funds or rectify [&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-66222","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\/66222","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=66222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}