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How a fake trading platform fakes your charts (and your "withdrawal")
The numbers on your trading screen are just database entries. Why a fake exchange can show you a win and still hold zero.
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Digital asset recovery & forensics for victims of crypto, wire-transfer, forex, and gift-card fraud. Free 15-minute case assessment — we'll tell you honestly whether your funds are recoverable, and where they are.
Recovery odds drop fast. Funds move through wallets, mixers, and exchanges within minutes. The faster we start tracing, the more endpoints we can freeze before the money exits the system.
Stolen Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT (incl. TRON), exchange drains, fake "AI trading" platforms, romance-scam investment losses. We trace wallet-by-wallet to custodial endpoints.
Wire fraud, Zelle, ACH, money mule schemes, fake check overpayments. We build the evidence package for banks, chargebacks, and law-enforcement restitution.
Gift-card fraud, fake "verification" charges, retail reversals. Card numbers and receipt data often survive longer than victims expect — we know how to use that window.
Digital tracing is a discipline. This is the exact path every case follows — no pressure, no upfront "recovery fees."
We verify you are the originating owner of the funds — your hashes, statements, and the trail back to your account. This stops a malicious party from hijacking the case against you.
Wallet-by-wallet reconstruction across chains, DEX bridges, mixers, and mule accounts. We cluster addresses, follow peeling chains, and isolate the destination wallets at KYC-regulated endpoints — the exchanges and banks that can actually be compelled.
You receive a fixed-fee forensic report: full fund-flow map, labeled entities, deposit addresses, and the precise freeze points. It's yours — formatted for police, your lawyer, and bank compliance, and built to hold up in court.
We execute: exchange freeze requests, bank recall mandates, chargebacks, and law-enforcement coordination. You pay a success fee only on what actually comes back.
You pay for proof, then for results. Never a surprise.
15-minute trace assessment. Honest recoverability verdict + current location of your funds. No obligation, no follow-up pressure.
Start FreeFull forensic fund-flow report with labeled entities, exchange endpoints, and freeze points. Price set by case complexity, quoted before we start.
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Discuss My CaseWe do not ask you to trust a promise. Here is a redacted, real tracing report, from a closed engagement, with client details removed. This is the document you receive, formatted for your lawyer, your bank, and the police.
Redacted from a closed case. Client name, account numbers, and the full trace are withheld. The structure, language, and depth are exactly what you will receive.
Download the PDFWant the un-redacted version? We will walk you through it live, under a confidentiality agreement, during your free assessment.
Redacted from closed engagements. Full case files available on request during your assessment.
"Investment advisor" wire fraud. Traced 3 mule accounts to a US bank endpoint; coordinated with the receiving bank and FBI IC3 to freeze pre-withdrawal. Restored via bank recall + civil demand.
Read the full case write-up →Romance-scam exchange drain. Mapped the flow through a DEX bridge to a Tier-1 exchange deposit address; freeze request executed before withdrawal. 84% of principal returned.
Read the full case write-up →"Security verification" gift-card scheme. Recovered via retailer reversal on un-redeemed cards plus a bank dispute on the card account, inside the redemption window.
Read the full case write-up →"They told me the first week that maybe 80% was recoverable and why. Three other firms had all promised 100%. That's how I knew."
"I'd been burned twice already by 'recovery services.' These are the first ones that never once asked for my seed phrase or an upfront fee."
"The tracing report was clean enough my lawyer submitted it to the bank and the police the same week."
Named, listed, and verifiable. No faceless "forensics lab."
Founder & Lead Investigator
CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) · 12+ yrs financial-fraud and asset-recovery casework across crypto, wire, and gift-card fraud.
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Blockchain Forensics Analyst
CCBA (Chainalysis Certified Blockchain Analyst) · GCFA (GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst) — on-chain fund-flow tracing, mixer/bridge analysis, report authoring.
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Recovery & Legal Liaison
Former financial-crime prosecutor · CFE — bank recalls, chargebacks, and law-enforcement coordination with recovery counsel.
View full profile →Each investigator has a full, public profile — bio, credentials, and redacted case history — linked above and in the footer. Look them up. That's the point of publishing them.
One of our recovered clients — recorded after the funds came back. Full case write-up and the recovery report are available to verify on request.
Recorded March 2026 · case #PR-2026-014 · read the full case write-up →
"I honestly didn't think I'd see any of my money again. Two years, the 'trading app,' and my partner had talked me out of $186,000. Proof & Recovery traced every deposit, got the exchange to freeze the off-ramp account before the cash was pulled, and in six weeks I had 84% back. What sealed it was that they showed me the on-chain trail in writing before I paid them a cent."
Meredith K. · Austin, TX · crypto + wire loss
Want proof? We'll walk you through the on-chain trace live, or share the redacted report from this exact case.
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We build every trace on the same industry-standard analytics platforms exchanges and law enforcement use — and we coordinate freezes through exchange legal desks, bank compliance teams, and IC3 / FBI / local task forces. Tool and agency names belong to their respective owners; we are an independent firm, not an affiliate.
You've probably been approached by a "recovery agent" who is a second scam. Here's exactly how to check we're not one — do it before you pay us a cent.
If any of those apply to us, walk away and tell us where we failed. That's the bar — and it's the reason we publish everything above.
Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones.
Tracing typically completes in 1–3 weeks; freezes and bank recalls happen inside that window or they don't. Exchange freeze requests are only effective while funds sit in an account that hasn't been withdrawn — which is why the first 72 hours matter most.
Transaction hashes or account numbers, chat logs with the scammer, screenshots, bank/card statements, gift-card numbers, and dates. The more you have, the stronger the trace. Our free assessment tells you exactly what's missing.
Because a guarantee means the firm is selling hope, not forensics. Funds can be mixed, bridged, or cashed out beyond reach. We price honestly and report real odds — and our recovery-fee model means we only earn when you actually get money back.
Yes. Our reports are formatted for FBI IC3, Action Fraud, Europol, and local cybercrime units, and we coordinate directly with exchange compliance teams. Many recoveries are a combination of an exchange freeze + law-enforcement seizure + civil demand.
Yes — that's the point. Wire transfers, Zelle/ACH, bank fraud, and gift-card schemes are a core part of what we do, alongside crypto. Most pig-butchering victims lost money through all three channels at once.
Common, and it doesn't kill the case. Send us the history — the second layer of loss often points at the same money trail, and the mule accounts may still be unfrozen.
What we learn tracing hundreds of cases, written down. No jargon, no sales pitch — just the mechanics of how these scams move money and where the money ends up.
The numbers on your trading screen are just database entries. Why a fake exchange can show you a win and still hold zero.
What ACH and Zelle actually are, why they are so hard to reverse, and the levers that still work.
The report is the first step, not the whole step. How a forensic trace turns a complaint into a freeze.
Funds don't just "sit" in a stolen wallet. Here's the actual timeline a traced case moves on, and which steps you can still stop.
Most pig-butchering drains exit on TRON. Why, what the peeling chain looks like, and where it breaks at the KYC wall.
MT103, UETR, recall vs. refund — what makes a bank freeze a mule account before the money is pulled out.
The reversal windows at major retailers, what a fraud flag looks like internally, and the one detail victims forget to report.
After the loss, the second wave of scammers arrives in your inbox and DMs. The five tells, and what to send them instead.
Tell us what happened — the more specific detail you give, the faster we can verify. Within 24 hours you'll get an honest verdict, recoverable or not, directly on Telegram or WhatsApp.