Jasper County S.O. obtained a search warrant and recovered nearly $32,000 from a Bitcoin machine, including $25,000 a family almost lost to what Havard calls ‘online scammers.’
Jasper County S.O. obtained a search warrant and recovered nearly $32,000 from a Bitcoin machine, including $25,000 a family almost lost to what Havard calls ‘online scammers.’
That’s so stupid. Those Bitcoins are gone to the scammers, what they are retrieving is the money of that exchange.
When he fell for scammers because of greed, then it was his own fault. Of course, they’re saying “family” to raise sympathy.
ReadersAreRedditors on
9 months ago?
UpbeatFix7299 on
Scamming your granny is one of the few use cases for crypto. They should ban these garbage Bitcoin atms
xblackout_ on
Yeah go cut up the machine of the entrepreneur- just sucks all around
RandoDude124 on
Cool. The way scammers like this run is disgusting
EarningsPal on
So damage or destroy the machine, costing the own, for the gullibility of the person they was scammed? Thus passing the pain from the person to the BTC machine owner?
East-Cricket6421 on
The sad part is this does nothing. The thieves use BTC as the payment but the person who sold the victim the BTC (in this case whoever owns that ATM) likely has nothing to do with that. This would be akin to a scammer getting you to hand them a cashiers check via fraudulent means and in response the local police go and take your money back from the bank.
Unless the ATM operators were also miraculously the scammers, then all you’ve done is create a new set of victims with this move.
CantaloupeCamper on
Pretty much the use case for those machines…
moonkingdome on
I like totally not get this.. Is i me or are they robbing a legit company
ReallyOrdinaryMan on
Its like blaming Apple for getting scammed by a phone call. The money you “recovered” is not belong to scammer… Scammer received that money loong ago
SpeedyVanmoofer on
And this will birth a new scam: buy btc from a machine and claim you were scammed, get a refund and keep the btc!
markofthebeast143 on
So what happened? Was these gullible people thought they were paying the government they were instructed to go to a bitcoin machine and low $25,000 and send it to an address. Had there been a cashiers check that they got from the bank and then sent it and mailed it the police would not have went to the bank and told them to give us the $25,000 I would suggest the bitcoin operator sue Jasper County to recoup their funds because you can’t stop stupidity
AgathaAllAlong on
Next time I mail money to a scammer I’m cutting open the post office box. Same as this.
Dazzling_Marzipan474 on
What is their logic here? They think the machine scammed someone? How does not a single person know how this works lol
j89turn on
Needs larger print, too many voters have shown they cant read
Trueslyforaniceguy on
The bitcoin ATM operator accepted the stolen money?
Or what’s the thought process on cracking this thing open? Am I missing something?
exomyth on
So they robbed the owner of the ATM? If I ever get scammed I can rob a bank too, yeah?
sirlockjaw on
If this works, why not just send 25k to yourself via one of these machines and then claim fraud?
TurbulentAd976 on
Enjoy getting taxed to hell and still have to wait. At least there are jobs in the u.s.
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A Bitcoin machine?
That’s so stupid. Those Bitcoins are gone to the scammers, what they are retrieving is the money of that exchange.
When he fell for scammers because of greed, then it was his own fault. Of course, they’re saying “family” to raise sympathy.
9 months ago?
Scamming your granny is one of the few use cases for crypto. They should ban these garbage Bitcoin atms
Yeah go cut up the machine of the entrepreneur- just sucks all around
Cool. The way scammers like this run is disgusting
So damage or destroy the machine, costing the own, for the gullibility of the person they was scammed? Thus passing the pain from the person to the BTC machine owner?
The sad part is this does nothing. The thieves use BTC as the payment but the person who sold the victim the BTC (in this case whoever owns that ATM) likely has nothing to do with that. This would be akin to a scammer getting you to hand them a cashiers check via fraudulent means and in response the local police go and take your money back from the bank.
Unless the ATM operators were also miraculously the scammers, then all you’ve done is create a new set of victims with this move.
Pretty much the use case for those machines…
I like totally not get this.. Is i me or are they robbing a legit company
Its like blaming Apple for getting scammed by a phone call. The money you “recovered” is not belong to scammer… Scammer received that money loong ago
And this will birth a new scam: buy btc from a machine and claim you were scammed, get a refund and keep the btc!
So what happened? Was these gullible people thought they were paying the government they were instructed to go to a bitcoin machine and low $25,000 and send it to an address. Had there been a cashiers check that they got from the bank and then sent it and mailed it the police would not have went to the bank and told them to give us the $25,000 I would suggest the bitcoin operator sue Jasper County to recoup their funds because you can’t stop stupidity
Next time I mail money to a scammer I’m cutting open the post office box. Same as this.
What is their logic here? They think the machine scammed someone? How does not a single person know how this works lol
Needs larger print, too many voters have shown they cant read
The bitcoin ATM operator accepted the stolen money?
Or what’s the thought process on cracking this thing open? Am I missing something?
So they robbed the owner of the ATM? If I ever get scammed I can rob a bank too, yeah?
If this works, why not just send 25k to yourself via one of these machines and then claim fraud?
Enjoy getting taxed to hell and still have to wait. At least there are jobs in the u.s.