Service

Investment fraud

Fake trading platforms are the most common matter we see. The work is establishing who operates the platform, where deposits actually went, and which of the available routes, criminal referral, civil action or exchange-level intervention, is worth pursuing.

Open a caseAssessment within 5 business days, full report in 2 to 3 weeks

What the work involves

01
Establish whether the platform was ever connected to a real market, or was a database displaying numbers.
02
Trace deposits from your wallet to their consolidation and layering points.
03
Map the operating infrastructure: domain history, hosting, TLS certificates, app signing certificates and payment processors.
04
Identify infrastructure reuse across other platforms, which is usually how a single operation becomes visible as a group.
05
Assemble the evidence in a form a prosecutor or civil litigator can act on without redoing the work.

What this cannot do

If you are currently being asked to pay a fee, tax or deposit to release a balance, stop and talk to us before paying it. That demand is the fraud, not an obstacle to clearing it. No further payment has ever released a balance in a matter we have reviewed.

Typical matters

Fake trading, mining or staking platforms

Relationship-led investment fraud, often called pig butchering

Fraudulent token or presale offerings

Withdrawal blocked behind a demand for a fee, tax or deposit

Also relevant

Other services

Blockchain tracing

Follow funds across addresses, bridges and swaps until they stop moving.

Counterparty due diligence

Check who you are about to deal with, while it is still cheap to walk away.

Extortion and harassment

Identify the source, contain the exposure, and stop paying.

Website and app forensics

Establish who is behind a site, and what else they run.