A retired Arizona couple have filed a class action lawsuit in a US federal court accusing Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot of enabling a $76,000 impersonation scam that wiped out their savings between 9 and 13 August 2025 and, they say, forced one of them back to work.
The claim centres on a pattern fraud investigator have been warning about for years. Scammers allegedly pose as trusted institutions, terrify victims with invented criminal allegations, then insist the only way to 'fix' the problem is to move money into Bitcoin via a crypto ATM. The Laceys argue Bitcoin Depot has long been aware of how its machines are used in these schemes yet failed to put in place basic protections for inexperienced, often older, customers.
