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A Crypto Assets ATM scam revealed that an elderly widow lost $281,000 in the eyewash.
Gate News bot reported that according to CoinTelegraph, the Australian Federal Police stated that as part of their efforts to combat criminal activities using Crypto Assets ATMs, they have contacted more than 90 Australians, including pig-butchering victims and criminal suspects.
Australia's financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC stated on Wednesday that one of the victims is a 77-year-old widow who was scammed out of 433,000 AUD (281,947 USD) in an online dating scam.
According to ABC News in Australia, the widow only realized that the Belgian man she had been dating online for two years was a scammer when the police showed up at her doorstep.
The victim claims that she met a scammer on a dating app who encouraged her to invest in Crypto Assets. He showed her forged documents, claiming that he made 13,000 AUD (8,464 USD) in a week.
According to reports, during her first transaction, the scammer detailed the entire process to her, including withdrawing cash from a regular ATM and then depositing funds through a Bitcoin ATM. She transferred all her life savings to Bitcoin in just 18 months.
The victim told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she once carried cash worth 20,000 AUD (13,023 USD) with her, adding that transfers usually take "half a day" and that she is "very good at using Bitcoin ATM."
"The worst part is that I have to tell my daughter that I have actually donated all my life savings, which I earned over 40 years, and he only took 18 months to get it."
AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thoms stated, "The task force also discovered another woman in her 70s who mistakenly believed she saw a legitimate advertisement about a trading company offering lucrative investment returns, only to be scammed. She lost over $200,000."