How stolen crypto is traced and recovered
How crypto-fraud recovery actually works, drawn from twelve real Cryptofraudhelp cases.
A fake exchange in Australia: recovering AUD 96,800
FDC Trade Asia — fake exchange, 81% recovered.
The bonus that locked the account: a $27,500 case
BBS Markets — bonus trap, high leverage, 58% recovered.
Offshore and unlicensed: recovering €76,500
Zagros — offshore unregulated, 92% recovered.
A managed account that froze: a hard case
Apel Investments — frozen managed account, 22% recovered.
A Telegram signal group, a pump, and $148,000
PipVertex — signal-group pump, 72% recovered.
When the recovery “service” was the second scam
Wealth Trade Capital — recovery-scam double fraud, 39% recovered.
Boiler-room pressure and a $38,900 account
TriumpAccession — boiler-room upsell, 64% recovered.
Eight months, a stranger, and AUD 210,000 in fake staking
Sterling Bond Fund — pig-butchering romance, 54% recovered.
A DeFi swap that drained a wallet — and what we got back
GSwap — token-approval drainer, 19% recovered.
Cloned licence, real bank recall: an €92,000 recovery
ForTradeFX — clone of regulated firm, 88% recovered.
A withdrawal fee that never ended: recovering £61,500
Xirom Investments — CFD withdrawal-fee, 41% recovered.