Crypto fraud in Texas led to a legal dispute between a Bitcoin Automat operator and a local sheriff: report
Crypto fraud in Texas led to a legal dispute between a Bitcoin Automat operator and a local sheriff: report
Lux Vending-company name under the name Bitcoin Depot-has reportedly filed a lawsuit against McLennan County's office, Texas, illegally, illegal $ 15,000 from a BTC money machine (ATM) have.
The authorities confiscated the amount to compensate an older victim that had been victim of cryptocurrency fraud.
Bitcoin depot "Can drive to hell"
according to locals Cover Preserver-Spaces = "True"> The whole drama began as an 82-year-old woman from crawford on the Internet for a cooking recipe. While she was online, she received an email with the message that she had accidentally activated a "ransomware" computer virus.
The woman contacted the "customer support", where she was forwarded to a specially intended "fraud investigator". The latter claimed that all of your personal data had been compromised and added that someone had issued a check for $ 15,000 to a mysterious construction company using your data. The perpetrator advised the victim to withdraw 15,000 US dollar cash from her bank and to pay the money at a Bitcoin Automats in Waco, Texas.
"The woman said she followed the instructions and the man had called her all the time. The woman said that she paid $ 15,000," says the affidavit.
Shortly afterwards she reported the fraud to the Sheriff's office, which issued a search command for Bitcoin Depot, confiscated the funds and gave it back to the woman.
"The $ 15,000 that she had put in the machine was still in the wallet in which she had put them in. So we brought the $ 15,000 back to the office. We took it to take pictures, so that it was not back to the victim so that it was not more to be resounded by these will be ”, explained Sheriff Parnell McNamara.
He described the company as "a bunch of vultures" who wanted to take money that belonged to the older person lawfully. The sheriff went even further and said that Bitcoin Depot "can go to hell".
The company's team claimed that the Sheriff's office had the right to confiscate the funds but not to return them to the woman. The lawsuit also states that Bitcoin Depot was not the fraudster, which means that you have not tempted the victim to pay the money.
A hearing has not yet been set. The lawyer of Bitcoin Depot - Macvane - said the company "promised to work together in every conceivable way" to help the investigators in this case. According to the sheriff, the fraudsters sit in another country.
The citizen of Missouri, who shot a BTC money machine
The above-mentioned case of the older inhabitant of Texas is not the only confusing case that dealt with a Bitcoin money machine. The Missouri citizen Matthew Klinger recently received for five years under supervision after five shots on such a machine have been fired.
The reason for the crime remained unclear, but he said that he destroyed the device "so that no one else could take out money".
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