The Office of the Public Prosecutor in Washington, DC, filed a lawsuit against the Crypto Atma Bitcoin operator, claiming that he imposed unannounced fees on the deposits that the company knew was associated with fraud and failed in a sufficient protection situation to combat the eruption.
Public Prosecutor, the capital, Brian Shawwal alleged On Monday, 93 % of the deposits on Athens in the first five months were the “direct result of fraud” and criticized the company that does not educate, which he said prevented victims from recovering unannounced fees and fraud mixtures.
“Athena knows that her machines are used primarily by fraudsters, but she chooses to look in the other direction so that she can continue in the pocket of large hidden transactions.”
It comes amid a more campaign campaign on ATMs for encryption, as the FBI informed nearly 11,000 complaints of fraud in the kiosks in 2024, with a total of more than $ 246 million in losses. At least 13 states, including Arizona, Colorado and Michigan, have implemented the boundaries of transactions to reduce the potential impact of orgasms in encryption cooling devices.
Athens did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Athens are allegedly benefiting from six numbers of unannounced drawings
In the court file, the Shawwal office alleged Athens was charged by consumer fees of 26 % for each transaction without “revealing it clearly at any time of this process.”
The office argued that Athens misled users by referring to the “transactions service margin” in the terms of the service, where “fees” were not mentioned.
Athens was accused of engaging in deceptive and unfair commercial practices, as well as violating laws aimed at protecting vulnerable and elderly adults from ill -treatment, neglect and financial exploitation.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Athens claimed that “attracting hundreds of thousands of dollars in unannounced fees” of fraud victims, and many of them were weak or the elderly, in the first five months of work in the capital between May and September 2024.
The average life of the victims was 71, while the average loss of each transaction reached 8,000, according to Filing, who claimed one of the residents of the capital lost 98,000 dollars from a fraud that was facilitated in the Athens booth.
The Shawalb Office claimed that Athens had “ineffective supervision”, which he said had invented an “unreasonable pipeline for unlawful international fraud transactions.”
“Athens allowed and allowed the transactions in which the victims are forced, misleading and manipulating them in depositing the savings of their lives in Athens’ machines under fraudulent allegations.”
Steps to avoid deception in encrypted ATMs
To protect himself from what Shawalb described as a “predatory behavior”, ATM Crypto users should not send money to someone they have not met, especially if it is for a person who was indiscriminately contacted.
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The fraudsters usually offer themselves as a specialist to support encryption technology, claiming that the victim’s money may be in danger, or the merchant who promises to help them achieve great profits without danger.
Those who met with random requests must refrain from responding to them and contact the institution or the person they claim to represent through official channels.
There are currently 26,850 ATMS Crypto in the United States, According to To Coinatmradar. Bitcoin Depot has the largest share of machines by 27.6 %, followed by Coinflip and ATHENA by 13.6 % and 13 %, respectively.
The banking industry is tenth
The failure to reveal the fees, as the public prosecutor in the capital, was historically the issue of prolific production in the banking industry.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ordered the discovery of a bank to return about $ 1.2 billion of fees imposed on customers in April, while Wales Fargo was requested in December 2022 to pay fines worth $ 3.7 billion after finding them imposing illegal fees and interest fees on real estate loans.
Bank of America was also ordered to pay more than $ 250 million for imposing “unwanted fees” in 2023.
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