Police tell Bitcoin ATM firm to 'go to hell,' take scam victim's cash from machine
A crypto ATM maker and a Texas sheriff’s department are locked in a fierce legal battle after police seized cash from one of the company’s machines and handed it back to an 82-year-old woman who had been scammed into converting $15,000 into bitcoin. The woman was reportedly looking up cooking recipes online when she received an email with a link that, when clicked on, claimed to have activated a ransomware vir US . After being directed to a ‘fraud investigator,’ she was told that her personal information had been compromised and that she should drive to her bank, make a $15,000 withdrawal, and deposit the money into the bitcoin ATM operated by Lux Vending. The unnamed victim reported the scam to the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office on April 27 and six days later, a search warrant was granted to retrieve the deposited cash . However, according to a suit filed by Lux Vending (which does b US iness as Bitcoin Depot) in Waco’s 74th State District Court, the seizure was “unlawful...