The facts
The facts about crypto ATMs and fraud
Byte Federal operates bitcoin ATMs, so this is our case, and we make it with sources you can check: where these scams start, where fraud money really moves, what bans do, and what actually stops a scam.
Crypto ATM scams start with a phone call, a text, a pop-up or a fake ad; the kiosk is the last step, chosen by the scammer the way they choose gift cards or a wire. Far more fraud money moves over the banks’ own rails. Banning kiosks doesn’t touch the call, and laws that make the operator pay the victim move the theft rather than refund it. What works is stopping the call, slowing the withdrawal and a live person at the machine.
Checked and updated by Byte Federal’s fraud-prevention team. How we check facts.
The kiosk is the last step of a five-step con
- The hook. A phone call, often from a faked number, a text, a computer pop-up with a number to call, a fake ad or a “wrong number” message.
- The story. Your account is hacked, your Social Security number is frozen, there is a warrant, a relative is in jail. Fear and a deadline.
- The bank. The victim withdraws cash, often an unusual amount, coached on what to tell the teller.
- The payment the scammer picks. A crypto ATM and a QR code, or gift cards, a wire transfer, gold, or cash handed to a courier.
- The money is gone. Whatever the route, the scammer has it.
When the FTC studied reports from people who lost money at a bitcoin ATM, the most common first contact was a phone call, in about 47% of cases; next came pop-ups, online ads and emails, which usually carried a phone number to call. About 86% of the people in those reports had lost their money to a government impersonator, a business impersonator or fake tech support: scams that begin with a lie told on the phone or on a screen.
The kiosk is not special to the scammer. The FTC reports that the same impersonators tell people to “transfer money out of their accounts, deposit cash into Bitcoin ATMs, and even hand off stacks of cash or gold to couriers.” The FBI has warned since 2024 about couriers sent to collect cash and gold from victims’ homes.
Follow the money: the biggest fraud rails are the banks’ own
| How the money was paid | Reported losses |
|---|---|
| Bank transfer or payment | $2.09 billion $2.09 billion · Bank transfer or payment. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024, p. 11. |
| Cryptocurrency (all forms, kiosks included) | $1.42 billion $1.42 billion · Cryptocurrency (all forms, kiosks included). FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024, p. 11. |
| Wire transfer | $287 million $287 million · Wire transfer. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024, p. 11. |
| Credit cards | $275 million $275 million · Credit cards. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024, p. 11. |
| Gift or reload cards | $212 million $212 million · Gift or reload cards. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024, p. 11. |
In the FTC’s consumer reports, the single largest way fraud money was paid in 2024 was a bank transfer or payment: $2.1 billion, more than all cryptocurrency put together, kiosks included. For 2025 the FTC reports the same order: bank payments first, then cryptocurrency.
Other sources, with other methods, point the same way. We don’t add them together; each is labelled with its source and year:
Nobody proposes banning bank transfers, wires, cards or Zelle. Banks and payment networks are expected to spot fraud and stop it, and are criticised when they don’t. Byte Federal asks that kiosks be held to that same standard, with ID, monitoring, warnings and live intervention, rather than singled out for prohibition because they are the newest and smallest rail.
What a ban did in Indiana
Indiana went furthest. House Enrolled Act 1116, signed on March 9, 2026 and in force the same day under an emergency clause, says in one sentence that “a person may not operate a virtual currency kiosk in Indiana.” The state’s own fiscal note estimated 903 kiosks were operating there in January 2026.
Nothing in the law touched the rest of the chain. The spoofed calls keep their caller ID, the fake ads and pop-ups keep running, and the banks keep releasing the cash.
Indiana’s scams didn’t stop on March 9. The law took away one way to pay; the calls, the scripts and the cash withdrawals that feed them were left alone. The FTC and the FBI already document the same scammers sending people to bank transfers, wires, gift cards and couriers who collect cash and gold at the door. With the kiosks gone, every one of those routes is still open, and none of them comes with an ID check, a warning screen or a person who calls before the money moves. How much of the fraud moved where, nobody has measured: the FBI’s state-by-state kiosk figures stop at the end of 2025, before the ban, and the state has published nothing since.
Indiana was the first. Tennessee and Vermont banned kiosks from July 1, 2026, Minnesota from August 1, and Hawaii’s ban on buying crypto with cash at a kiosk took effect on October 1. Five bans in one year, and more bills every session. Every state’s law, with the statute.
Who loses access when kiosks close
In the FDIC’s latest survey, 4.2% of American households, about 5.6 million, had no bank account at all, and another 14.2%, about 19 million, had one but had also used services such as check cashing or money orders in the past year: 24.6 million households in all. The gaps are wide: 10.6% of Black households and 9.5% of Hispanic households were unbanked, against 1.9% of white households.
For a household like that, a kiosk at the gas station is one of the few places to turn cash into something digital without a bank account: no minimum balance, no account-screening check, open at 11 p.m.
Byte Federal measured its own customers with the method the CFPB uses in fair-lending reviews (Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding, which estimates a group’s makeup from surnames and ZIP codes, never from photos). An estimated 22.6% of its customers are Black, against 12.1% of the U.S. population. The customers who lose their kiosk when a state bans them are, disproportionately, the ones the banks reach least.
They are also small savers. At Byte Federal’s machines the median purchase is $300, two-thirds are under $500, and the median first purchase is $150; repeat customers come back about every 24 days.
What the fee pays for
A kiosk charges once, at the moment of purchase, and shows the price on the screen before you put in a dollar. Its fee is higher than an app’s because the costs behind it are: a money transmitter licence and bond in each state, a federal anti-money-laundering program with compliance staff, monitoring and audits, armored-car cash collection, rent to the store that hosts the machine, and bank accounts that are hard to keep at all. The Treasury’s 2023 de-risking review found small and mid-size money services businesses “highly vulnerable to de-risking”: banks drop them when the cost of compliance outweighs the profit.
Those costs leave little over. Bitcoin Depot, the largest publicly traded U.S. operator, reported net income of $7.8 million on $573.7 million of revenue in 2024, about 1.4 cents on the dollar. In May 2026 it filed for Chapter 11 to wind down, its chief executive citing new state transaction limits and, in some states, “outright restrictions or bans”.
Compare the fees nobody proposes to ban. Banks with more than $1 billion in assets took in $5.83 billion in overdraft and insufficient-funds fees in 2023, and card issuers charged more than $14 billion a year in late fees, by the CFPB’s count. Those come back every month someone is short. A kiosk fee is paid once, on a purchase the customer chose, at a price shown before they paid.
Making the operator pay is not a refund
Several states now require the kiosk operator to pay scam victims back out of its own funds if they report in time. These laws are often described as “refunds.” They are not.
A refund gives back money the business kept. The operator kept only its fee: it took the cash, bought and delivered real bitcoin to the address on the customer’s screen, and that bitcoin went straight to the scammer, who still has it. When the law makes the operator pay the whole amount back, the scammer’s theft doesn’t shrink by a dollar. It moves onto the operator, and from the operator, through higher fees and kiosks that close because they no longer pay their way, onto the other people who use those machines, many of whom rely on cash.
We don’t ask this of anyone else. A coin shop that sold real gold to a frightened customer is not ordered to refund it when a courier takes the coins. A store that sold gift cards, or a bank that sent a wire the customer authorized, is generally not made to cover the loss. And a guaranteed payout from one kind of business gives scammers a reason to steer victims to it, because someone else will pay.
None of that changes what a victim is entitled to. If your state’s law makes the operator reimburse you, use it, and meet its deadline: crypto ATM laws by state. Then report the scam, so investigators can go after the person who actually has the money.
What actually stops these scams
Intervene in the order the money travels:
- Stop the call. Enforce caller ID authentication with real consequences, close the gaps that let foreign calls spoof U.S. numbers, and hold voice providers and platforms responsible for the scam traffic and ads they carry. The FCC itself says “many bad actor providers remain”; the FTC says platforms “internalize the revenue but externalize the risk.” For now, the filter has to sit on your phone, so Byte Federal’s team built one: PhoneShield. How to stop scam calls, free tools first.
- Slow the withdrawal. Every dollar fed into a kiosk in one of these scams came out of a bank first, usually as an unusual cash withdrawal by a nervous, coached customer. The bank sees the money before any kiosk does.
- Guard the cash-out. ID on every transaction, warnings that describe the scam, cooling-off periods, screening of the wallet the money is going to, limits that stop a victim being walked from machine to machine, and a live person who calls before the money moves.
Gift cards show what works. After years of warnings from the FTC, retailers and AARP itself, 82% of Americans in AARP’s April 2026 fraud survey knew that being told to buy gift cards for an urgent matter is a scam tactic. Nobody banned gift cards; they are still sold at every checkout. For crypto kiosks, only 19% said they could even recognize the machine, which is exactly where a campaign like that would start. That kind of public education, at the kiosk and before it, is what this site is for.
Australia shows what aiming upstream looks like in law. Its Scams Prevention Framework Act, passed in February 2025, puts duties to prevent, detect and disrupt scams on banks, telecommunications companies and digital platforms such as social media, search and messaging, with penalties of up to about A$50 million or more for a company, phasing in through March 2027. It treats the companies whose networks carry the scam as part of the solution.
What Byte Federal does at its machines
About 84% of attempted scams stop when our compliance team calls.
- ID on every transaction, from the first dollar.
- AI risk scoring. Every transaction is screened in real time for the signs of a coached customer: duress, phone-guided behavior, unusual patterns.
- Live operator intervention. Trained compliance staff review flagged transactions for signs of coaching and can hold one for review.
- Cool-down periods. High-risk profiles must wait before a transaction goes through, which gives the customer time to reconsider.
- On-screen warnings. A scam warning the customer must acknowledge before every transaction, with stronger warnings about government-impersonation scams for customers over 60.
- A live, recorded call with every customer aged 60 and over. A member of the compliance team calls before they buy and explains what is happening, as extended due diligence under the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Law-enforcement coordination and rapid response when a scam is reported.
When Byte Federal’s compliance team calls a customer aged 60 or over whose transaction was flagged, about 84% of the attempted scams stop before the money moves. Byte Federal reports that, as of June 2026, 60% of the customers aged 60 and over it calls do not go on to make the transaction. The two figures count different people. The 84% is of attempted scams among flagged customers. The 60% is of every customer 60 and over who gets a call, whether a scam is suspected or not; many who go ahead are simply buying bitcoin for themselves. Source: Byte Federal’s internal compliance data, published on bytefederal.com/fraud-prevention and in The scam doesn’t start at the kiosk.
What a licensed operator must do
A crypto ATM operator is a money services business. Under federal law it must:
- register with FinCEN, the Treasury’s financial-crimes bureau, and run a written anti-money-laundering program with a compliance officer, training and independent review;
- verify customers and keep records, and screen them against the sanctions lists;
- report suspicious activity from $2,000, a lower threshold than the $5,000 that applies to banks, and report cash transactions over $10,000.
On top of that come state money transmitter licences, with bonding and exams, and the kiosk laws now in force in most states. The voice providers that carry the scammer’s call have none of these anti-money-laundering duties. That is the gap this whole page is about: the most regulated link in the chain is the last one.
How the phone side is policed
When the FCC fines a robocaller, it can’t collect the money itself. An unpaid fine goes to the Justice Department, which has to sue in federal court and argue the case from the start. There is no regular public count of what is actually paid. The last one, compiled by The Wall Street Journal in March 2019, found $6,790 collected of $208 million in robocall fines. We could find no newer total.
In August 2025 the FCC removed about 1,375 voice providers from its Robocall Mitigation Database. The reason was paperwork: 18 months after the deadline, they still hadn’t filed a plan for stopping robocalls, and they ignored a final notice. No fine came with it; other carriers simply had to stop accepting their calls.
What Byte Federal’s team built instead
We didn’t wait for the FCC. Members of Byte Federal’s team founded PhoneShield, a call-screening service that refuses numbers already reported as scams before the phone rings and asks every other unknown caller who they are and why they are calling. The scam script needs a conversation; PhoneShield is built so that it never gets one. The same team built Is This Number a Scam?, a free lookup of phone numbers people have reported.
A kiosk operator shouldn’t have to build the phone industry’s scam filter for it. But the call is where these scams start, and until the carriers stop delivering them, someone has to. How PhoneShield works, what it costs, and the free tools to try first.
PhoneShield and Is This Number a Scam? are made by Who Can It Be, LLC, a sister company of Byte Federal founded by members of its team.
Questions people ask
Are crypto ATMs mostly used by scam victims?
No. Most kiosk customers are buying bitcoin for themselves, often in small amounts. At Byte Federal’s machines the median transaction is $300, two-thirds are under $500, and the median first purchase is $150 (Byte Federal’s production data, April 2026). Across the industry, TRM Labs counted 98.8% of 2023 kiosk volume as not linked to any illicit activity. Scams are real and serious, which is why licensed operators check ID, warn on screen and, at Byte Federal, call older customers before they buy.
Do kiosk bans reduce scams?
No one has shown that they do. A ban removes one way to pay, not the call that starts the scam, and scammers already send people to gift cards, wire transfers and cash couriers. Indiana banned kiosks in March 2026, and its scams didn’t stop; no one has yet measured where the money went instead.
Aren’t kiosk fees too high?
A kiosk fee is higher than an app’s, paid once, and shown on the screen before you pay. It covers state licences and bonds, a federal anti-money-laundering program, armored-car cash collection, store rent and bank accounts that are hard to keep. Bitcoin Depot, the largest listed U.S. operator, kept about 1.4 cents of each revenue dollar as net income in 2024. Overdraft and late fees, by contrast, recur every month someone is short.
If a state makes the operator pay the victim, isn’t that a refund?
No. The operator didn’t keep the money: it sold real bitcoin, which the scammer now holds. Making the operator pay moves the scammer’s theft onto the operator and, through fees and closed kiosks, onto its other customers. If your state has such a law, it still applies to you; the deadlines are on the state-law page.
What does Byte Federal want lawmakers to do?
Go after the scam where it starts: enforce caller ID authentication, hold voice providers and platforms responsible for the scam traffic and ads they carry, and help banks stop unusual cash withdrawals. At the kiosk, require ID, clear warnings, cooling-off periods and live intervention. And fund public education, which worked for gift cards.
Is this page neutral?
No. It is Byte Federal’s case, made by a company that operates bitcoin ATMs. That is why every figure on it is labelled with its source and year, and Byte Federal’s own data is marked as such, so you can check it.
Sources for this page
- FTC Consumer Protection Data Spotlight on bitcoin ATM fraud (Sept 3, 2024) · Jan–Jun 2024 loss reports: a phone call was the most common first contact (about 47%), then online ads or pop-ups (16%); about 86% of people reporting a loss were on government impersonation, business impersonation or tech support scams; median loss $10,000; people 60+ more than three times as likely to report a loss.
- FinCEN Notice FIN-2025-NTC1: Use of convertible virtual currency kiosks for scam payments (Aug 4, 2025) · “Many scammers using CVC kiosks initiate contact with potential victims through unsolicited calls”; tech support scams are the most common kiosk scam; scammers stay on the phone until the payment is made and pick the machines.
- FTC data spotlight: False alarm, real scam: how scammers are stealing older adults’ life savings (Aug 7, 2025) · “These scams still depend on a phone call. Even when they don’t start with a call, reports show the goal is to get you on the phone.” In 2024, 41% of older adults who lost $10,000 or more to an imposter scam said it began with a phone call; scammers told people to deposit cash into Bitcoin ATMs or hand cash or gold to couriers.
- FBI public service announcement: Scammers use couriers to collect cash and precious metals from victims (Jan 29, 2024) · Tech support and government impersonators, posing in turn as a technology company, a bank and a government official, send couriers to collect victims’ cash and gold.
- FTC: Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024 (March 2025), pp. 11–12, fraud reports by payment method and by contact method · $12.5 billion reported lost. By payment method: bank transfer or payment $2,089M, cryptocurrency $1,417M, wire transfer $287M, credit cards $275M, gift or reload cards $212M. By contact method: phone call $948M lost, median $1,500, the highest of any contact method.
- FTC press release: testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on combating fraud (2026) · 3 million fraud reports and $15.9 billion reported lost in 2025; the highest losses were paid by bank payments, followed by cryptocurrency.
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: 2025 Internet Crime Report (crypto ATMs/kiosks, p. 53) · 13,460 crypto ATM complaints and $389 million lost in 2025; $257 million of it by people 60 and over. Call center fraud (tech support and government impersonation): more than 80,000 complaints and over $2.9 billion lost.
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: 2025 Internet Crime Report (business email compromise, pp. 9 and 26) · Business email compromise, the wire-transfer fraud aimed at companies and home buyers: $3,046,598,558 lost in 2025.
- The Nilson Report: card fraud losses worldwide, 2024 · $33.41 billion lost to payment-card fraud worldwide in 2024, 41.87% of it in the United States (about $14 billion). An industry estimate of card-network losses, not consumer reports.
- New York Attorney General: lawsuit against the company behind Zelle (Aug 13, 2025) · Alleges Zelle’s operator allowed scammers to “steal over $1 billion between 2017 and 2023”; filed after the CFPB abandoned its own suit.
- CFPB: lawsuit against Early Warning Services (Zelle), JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo (filed Dec 20, 2024; dismissed March 2025) · Customers of the three banks “have lost more than $870 million over the network’s seven-year existence.” The CFPB’s page adds: on March 4, 2025 it voluntarily dismissed the action with prejudice, and the court dismissed it on March 5.
- Indiana General Assembly: House Enrolled Act 1116 (2026), Public Law 143-2026, with its fiscal note · “A person may not operate a virtual currency kiosk in Indiana.” Effective on passage (emergency declared); signed March 9, 2026. Fiscal note (Feb 20, 2026): “an estimated 903 virtual currency kiosks in operation in Indiana as of January 2026.”
- FBI public service announcement I-051526-PSA: Cryptocurrency kiosk complaint data by state (May 15, 2026) · “No legitimate law enforcement or government official will call to demand payment via a cryptocurrency kiosk.” What to give the FBI: TXID, wallet address, kiosk location.
- FDIC: 2023 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (November 2024) · 4.2% of U.S. households (about 5.6 million) unbanked and 14.2% (about 19.0 million) underbanked. Unbanked: Black 10.6%, Hispanic 9.5%, American Indian or Alaska Native 12.2% (a small, more variable sample), White 1.9%.
- Byte Federal: Measuring Bitcoin ATM financial inclusion (BISG estimate, 45,973 customers) · Estimated with the CFPB’s BISG method: 22.6% of Byte Federal’s activated customers are Black, against 12.1% of the U.S. population (2020 Census), a 1.87× representation index.
- Byte Federal: What blockchain analytics reveal about Bitcoin ATM customers (production data, April 2026) · Median transaction $300; 67.4% of transactions under $500; median first purchase $150; repeat customers return about every 24 days.
- AARP: 2026 fraud survey (April 2026) · 82% correctly said that being told to buy gift cards for an urgent matter is a scam tactic; 19% said they could recognize a cryptocurrency ATM.
- Australia: Scams Prevention Framework Act 2025 (Act No. 15 of 2025) · Passed Feb 13, 2025; royal assent Feb 20, 2025. Duties to prevent, detect, disrupt, respond to and report scams on designated sectors (banks, telecommunications, digital platforms, designated May 2026, full obligations from March 31, 2027); maximum corporate penalty the greater of 159,745 penalty units (about A$50 million or more), three times the benefit, or 30% of adjusted turnover.
- 31 CFR 1022.320: suspicious activity reports by money services businesses · A money services business must report suspicious transactions that involve or aggregate at least $2,000.
- 31 CFR 1020.320: suspicious activity reports by banks · Banks report suspicious transactions of at least $5,000.
- FTC advance notice of proposed rulemaking on impersonation scams and platforms, Federal Register (Oct 1, 2026) · Scams are “amplified by search engine, social media, and other digital marketplace platforms that profit from optimizing online ads for third parties, regardless of whether the third parties are legitimate.” “Platforms internalize the revenue but externalize the risk.”
- FCC notice of proposed rulemaking: Know-your-upstream-provider requirements, Federal Register (July 9, 2026) · “Despite these mechanisms, many bad actor providers remain.” Calls signed with STIR/SHAKEN fell from 49% (Oct 2024) to 38% (Sept 2025), per TransNexus data the FCC cites.
- TRM Labs: Illicit activity involving crypto ATMs is double that of the overall crypto industry (Aug 27, 2024) · “Illicit volumes in the cash-to-crypto industry stood at 1.2% of total volume” in 2023, against 0.63% for crypto overall; 79% of that illicit volume went to known scam and fraud addresses. Measured by dollar volume, not number of transactions.
- FCC Enforcement Bureau: Order removing Robocall Mitigation Database filers, DA 25-737 (Aug 25, 2025) · Providers removed because their certifications lacked a robocall mitigation plan due February 26, 2024, and they ignored a final order to cure; no monetary penalty; other carriers must stop accepting their calls. With a companion order (DA 25-694), about 1,375 providers were removed in August 2025.
- The Wall Street Journal: The FCC has fined robocallers $208 million. It’s collected $6,790 (Mar 28, 2019; subscription) · Of $208 million in robocall fines the FCC had imposed, $6,790 had been collected as of March 2019.
- 47 U.S.C. § 504: forfeitures (Cornell Legal Information Institute) · An unpaid FCC forfeiture is recovered by a civil suit in the name of the United States, tried anew (de novo); the FCC cannot collect it on its own.
- U.S. Treasury: The Department of the Treasury’s De-risking Strategy (April 2023) · Small and medium-size money services businesses “are highly vulnerable to de-risking”; profitability, shaped by the cost of anti-money-laundering compliance, is “the primary factor” in banks’ decisions to drop them.
- Bitcoin Depot: fourth quarter and full year 2024 results, SEC Form 8-K exhibit 99.1 (Mar 18, 2025) · Revenue of $573.7 million in 2024; net income of $7.8 million ($7,814 thousand).
- Bitcoin Depot: voluntary Chapter 11 process, SEC Form 8-K exhibit 99.1 (May 18, 2026) · An orderly wind-down; its CEO: states imposed “new transaction limits, and in some jurisdictions, outright restrictions or bans on BTM operations … the Company’s current business model is unsustainable.”
- CFPB: credit card late fees final rule (Mar 5, 2024) · Credit card late fees “cost American families more than $14 billion a year” (2022); the typical late fee was $32.
- CFPB data spotlight: overdraft/NSF revenue in 2023 (Apr 24, 2024) · Banks with assets over $1 billion reported $5.83 billion in overdraft and NSF fee revenue in 2023 ($11.96 billion in 2019).
- Byte Federal: Crypto ATM fraud prevention, stopping fraud at every layer · Byte Federal’s controls, and its internal compliance data: live recorded calls with every customer aged 60 and over; “as of June 2026, 60% of these customers do not conduct a transaction.”
- Byte Federal: Take action (the Indiana case study and Byte Federal’s five-layer defense) · AI-powered transaction risk scoring, live operator scam-awareness intervention, cool-down periods for high-risk profiles, real-time on-screen warnings, law-enforcement coordination; Indiana HEA 1116 removed the kiosks and left the scam infrastructure intact.
- Byte Federal: Bitcoin ATM scam facts · The kiosk is the last step of a five-step con; the largest fraud rails are the banks’ own; bans push fraud to gift cards, wires and cash by mail.
- Byte Federal: The scam doesn’t start at the kiosk (2026) · Follow the money backward: phone, then bank, then kiosk. Intervene in that order: stop the call, slow the withdrawal, guard the cash-out. Footnote 7: live validation calls with flagged senior customers stop about 84% of attempted scams before the transaction completes.
- Byte Federal: Hard money has no refund (2026) · A “refund” from the operator can only mean the operator paying the loss from its own money; no one asks a coin dealer to do that.
- Byte Federal: Bitcoin ATM fees and limits explained · Byte Federal verifies identity on every transaction, regardless of amount; there is no anonymous tier. What a kiosk fee pays for: the bitcoin itself, cash logistics and host rent, hardware, compliance and licensing.
- Byte Federal: AARP’s own data undermines the case for banning bitcoin ATMs (2026) · Gift-card scam recognition rose through years of public education, and gift cards were never banned; Byte Federal asks why the same campaign isn’t being run for bitcoin ATMs while AARP presses legislatures for restrictions and bans.
- PhoneShield: About · “PhoneShield is a sister company of Byte Federal ... and was founded by members of its team.” Operated by Who Can It Be, LLC.
- PhoneShield: How it works, pricing and FAQ · Calls are forwarded to a PhoneShield number; reported scam numbers are refused before the phone rings, favorites ring through, other callers are asked who they are; $29.99 a month, no free trial; “It cannot guarantee that every scam is detected.”
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