A tragedy was avoided by the narrowest of margins in Gillette last week when a 76-year-old man was trying to deposit $16,000 into a Bitcoin Teller Machine (BTM) at a convenience store called Common Cents.

A fellow customer, a woman in her 30s, happened to overhear the scam in progress.

As is common, the con artist had kept the gentleman on the phone to explain how to operate the BTM as well as prevent the man from overthinking the crisis the scammer himself had invented.

The woman called the Gillette Police Department, which responded and explained to the man that he was being taken in the nick of time, saving his retirement funds. That money went straight back into his account, where it hopefully still sits, all safe and sound.

It was a happy ending that time. But the endings to t

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