The team

Daniel Mercer

Founder & Lead Investigator

CFE — Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE)
12+ years financial-fraud & asset-recovery casework
Prior financial-institution fraud unit experience

Background

Daniel founded Proof & Recovery after a decade of building cases that had to hold up in a courtroom, not just in a deck. His focus is the part most "recovery" outfits skip: establishing the chain of funds from the victim's account to the final off-ramp, with evidence that survives scrutiny.

He runs the first-pass assessment on every case, decides whether the money is realistically recoverable, and sets the timeline. If a case can't be won, he says so on the first call — that honesty is the whole point of the firm.

Selected case history (redacted)

Case	Type	Outcome
Case #PR-2026-014	Crypto + wire · Austin, TX	Traced a two-year pig-butchering scheme to a TRON/USDT off-ramp; 84% of a $186,000 loss recovered in six weeks.
Case #PR-2025-102	Wire transfer · Ohio	Recovered $210,000 via coordinated bank recalls across three correspondent banks within a 9-day window.
Case #PR-2025-088	Gift-card · Michigan	Held an unclaimed-balance clawback on $46,000 in gift cards by reaching issuer fraud ops before settlement.

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