{"id":677296,"date":"2025-06-26T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-atm-sting-uncovers-elderly-widow-who-lost-281k-in-a-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:05:18","slug":"crypto-atm-sting-uncovers-elderly-widow-who-lost-281k-in-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-atm-sting-uncovers-elderly-widow-who-lost-281k-in-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto ATM sting uncovers elderly widow who lost $281K in a scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the victims identified in the police operation said she carried around $13,000 in cash at one point to send Bitcoin to scammers via crypto ATMs.<\/p>\n

Australian federal police said it has contacted over 90 Australians as part of a crackdown on criminal use of crypto ATMs, including pig butchering victims and suspected offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the victims was a 77-year-old widow who was scammed out of 433,000 Australian dollars ($281,947) in an online dating scam, Australia\u2019s financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, said<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Australian public broadcaster ABC reported<\/a> the widow was unaware that the Belgian man she\u2019d been dating online for two years was a fraud until police showed up at her door.<\/p>\n

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One of the victims identified in the police operation said she carried around $13,000 in cash at one point to send Bitcoin to scammers via crypto ATMs. Australian federal police said it has contacted over 90 Australians as part of a crackdown on criminal use of crypto ATMs, including pig butchering victims and suspected offenders.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-06\/0197a942-1103-7400-9270-155206691ec8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74894,74863,70719,20358,117,71101],"class_list":["post-677296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-atm","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}