As scammers use kiosks to strip NH residents of their savings, lawmakers tangle over safeguards

By: Molly Rains

Outlets: NH Bulletin

Published: April 17, 2026

Words: 2,090

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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Fear, confusion, urgency, and a kiosk: that’s what it takes to execute a cryptocurrency ATM scam, law enforcement officers say. And that’s what Ken Heideman, a Nashua resident, was confronted with in 2022 as he stood in a New Hampshire convenience store, a bag at his feet full of $20s and $100s he’d withdrawn from his savings account just hours before.

He was under “an uninterrupted, unbroken sort of spell. That’s really the only way …

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