Australian Federal Police Lead Crypto ATM Crackdown
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.
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’s financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, said on Wednesday.
Australian public broadcaster ABC reported the widow was unaware that the Belgian man she’d been dating online for two years was a fraud until police showed up at her door.
“Half day’s work” to send scammer cash
The victim said she was encouraged by the scammer, whom she met on a dating app, to invest in Bitcoin (BTC) by showing her fake documents…
