Criminals are cashing in on bitcoin ATMs around the country, using the largely anonymous transactions for drug trafficking, money laundering and a variety of fraud, officials say.
The machines, mostly located in convenience stores and owned by private companies, allow customers to easily buyBut that convenience also means easy money for fraudsters.
Bitcoin ATM operators are required to register with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. However, an investigation by the New Jersey commission released earlier this year found actual regulation was lax, which is similar to many states. “It leads us to believe, based on our due diligence, that these exchanges are great havens for those who are scamming an individual in the United States to send the fund out of the U.S. borders, that allows them to sort of claim the money and get full control over it,” he said.
The consortium was “put together by like minds in this space, in traditional financial services, blockchain forensics companies, banks and other bitcoin ATM organizations that wanted to create a universally accepted standard“There is crime. It’s never going to stop. This is just a new medium that has happened and that is happening, and we have real data that it is happening. And we want to work together to stop it,” he added.
“The same way it shows where bitcoin is going, it also shows where bitcoin is coming from. That’s the cool thing about bitcoin being a public ledger,” he said. Kris Dayrit, president of CoinFlip, said customer service agents are trained to spot red flags such as a customer getting coerced into a transaction.Doug Carrillo, co-founder and chief strategist at Bitstop, said that “like any industry there are bad apples. ... Many ATMs will let you buy anonymously, you know, with no identification.
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