In seconds, her financial security vanished behind a screen inside a gas station. 

Thousands of dollars deposited into a cryptocurrency ATM, in what one Johnston County woman thought was a payment to law enforcement for her safe release. But when the callers – impersonating local law enforcement – on the other end of the line requested an additional $4,000, she told them she simply didn’t have the money. 

That’s when the call dropped, and she realized she had been depleted of what she says was the…