{"id":632488,"date":"2026-07-21T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=832628"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:30:07","slug":"americans-lost-11-billion-to-crypto-scams-last-year-most-of-it-ended-at-a-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/americans-lost-11-billion-to-crypto-scams-last-year-most-of-it-ended-at-a-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Lost $11 Billion to Crypto Scams Last Year. Most of It Ended at a Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/americans-lost-11-billion-to-crypto-scams-last-year--most-of-it-ended-at-a-gas-station-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Man with a mask holding a physical bitcoin\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Americans filed 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025 and reported more than $11.366 billion in losses, with crypto making up over half of the FBI IC3\u2019s $20.877 billion in total internet-crime losses. A fast-growing slice is crypto kiosks, which generated $389 million across 13,460 complaints, and victims 60 and older accounted for $257.4 million of that [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans filed 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025 and reported more than $11.366 billion in losses, with crypto making up over half of the FBI IC3\u2019s $20.877 billion in total internet-crime losses. A fast-growing slice is crypto kiosks, which generated $389 million across 13,460 complaints, and victims 60 and older accounted for $257.4 million of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}