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Ninety-Year-Old Saved From $10K Bitcoin Scam | Wilmington News
A Wilmington cop saved a 90-year-old woman from losing $10,000 to a bitcoin scammer at a gas station ATM—confronting the fraudster on her phone and stopping the transaction cold. This isn’t an isolated case: North Carolina now has 1,600 crypto kiosks, prime targets for scammers who fake government or bank alerts to rush victims into paying via cryptocurrency. Attorney General Jeff Jackson warns that no legitimate entity will ever ask for crypto payments—and urges people to hang up immediately if pressured. A new bill caps first-time crypto transactions at $2,000, limiting potential losses…
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