What I can and cannot do
This page exists because this industry is full of fraud. If you have been scammed, you have probably already been approached by someone promising to get your money back for a fee. I would rather lose your business than add to that.
What I can do
- Trace transactions across Bitcoin, Ethereum and ERC-20, Tron and TRC-20, and Solana, including through bridges and swap services
- Identify when funds pass through mixers, coin-swap services or peel chains, and state plainly what that does to evidential confidence
- Attribute deposit addresses to named exchanges, custodians and payment processors
- Establish on-chain connections between separate victims of the same operation
- Reconstruct timelines and quantify losses to an evidential standard
- Produce documentation suitable for a disclosure application, a law enforcement referral, an exchange escalation, or an insurance claim
- Work alongside your solicitor and explain the technical material to your legal team
What I cannot do
Reverse a transaction.
Nobody can. A confirmed blockchain transaction is final.
Freeze an account.
Exchanges act on court orders, law enforcement requests and their own compliance triggers. A private investigator’s letter is not one of those things, and anyone who tells you they have contacts who can simply freeze an account is lying to you.
Recover funds myself.
Any actual return of assets happens through litigation, an exchange’s own process, or a criminal proceeding. All of those involve lawyers or the police. I build the evidence that makes those routes possible.
Guarantee an outcome.
I can guarantee my method and my diligence. Nothing beyond that.
Trace privacy coins.
Monero and comparable protocols are not traceable by current public methods. If your funds were converted to Monero, I will tell you, and I will stop rather than bill you for work that cannot succeed.
Identify a person from an address.
I identify the service holding the funds. Identifying the account holder requires that service to disclose it, and that requires legal process.
What should make you suspicious of anyone in this field
- They contacted you first, unprompted, after you were defrauded
- They guarantee recovery, or quote a recovery percentage before seeing your case
- They ask for your seed phrase, private keys, or remote access to your device
- They ask you to send cryptocurrency for fees, taxes, gas, or to “unlock” funds
- They claim insider contacts at exchanges or law enforcement
- They cannot show you a named individual, a registered company, and a verifiable address
I will never ask you for a seed phrase or a private key. There is no circumstance in which I need one.