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 data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/police-contact-top-cryptocurrency-atm-users-amid-scam-concerns/105455238″ rel=”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/police-contact-top-cryptocurrency-atm-users-amid-scam-concerns/105455238″ target=”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/police-contact-top-cryptocurrency-atm-users-amid-scam-concerns/105455238″ title=”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/police-contact-top-cryptocurrency-atm-users-amid-scam-concerns/105455238″>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…
