Report an investment or cryptocurrency scam
Fake trading platforms, pig-butchering schemes, cloned brokers and wallet drainers. Tell us what happened and you get a free, honest assessment of what can realistically be done — including when the answer is very little.
If you deposited in the last 72 hours, contact your bank or the exchange now — before anything else. That window closes fast and nothing we do replaces it.
Free route first
Report free to your national cybercrime authority first — for most people that is the single most useful step, and it costs nothing. Our directory lists the right body for 34 countries.
What to do now
- Stop paying. Any further "tax", "margin call", "release fee" or "verification deposit" is part of the same fraud.
- Export the full chat history before you are removed from the group. Screenshots of selected parts are much weaker evidence.
- Record the platform URL, account name, deposit addresses and every transaction hash as text, not as images.
- Call your bank if you paid by card or transfer. For crypto, identify whether the destination address belongs to an exchange.
- Report to your national cybercrime authority the same day.
What actually decides the outcome
These are the factors our assessment weighs. Two of them cannot be changed after the fact, which is why the honest answer is sometimes that little can be done.
- How you paid. Card payments carry chargeback rights; bank transfers and crypto generally do not.
- How long ago. Hours is very different from months, and this is the factor nobody can change afterwards.
- Where the funds went. Still sitting at a regulated exchange is recoverable in a way a private wallet is not.
- What you kept. Transaction hashes, chat exports and payment records decide whether anyone can act.
What we do
- Assess the case against the factors that actually determine recovery, and give you a percentage with the reasoning shown.
- Identify whether the funds reached a regulated exchange, which is the main thing that makes a freeze request possible.
- Prepare the documentation your bank, the exchange and the police each need, in the form each of them expects.
- Tell you which regulator the platform should be reported to, and whether it already appears on a warning list.
We are a private company, not the police or a law firm. We do not guarantee recovery, and we will tell you when your outlook is poor rather than selling you hope. See our legal and verification page.
Questions people ask
Can you guarantee you will get my money back?
No, and nobody honestly can. We give you a computed estimate based on your specific facts, which is often low. Anyone promising recovery is describing something they do not control.
The platform still shows my balance. Is the money there?
A dashboard is a web page. On fraudulent platforms the displayed balance is a number the operator renders; no assets exist. The request for a fee to withdraw is the confirmation.
Someone contacted me offering to recover my crypto. Should I use them?
Almost certainly not. Unsolicited recovery offers to people who have already lost money are the second-wave fraud pattern. Victim lists circulate and are worked repeatedly.