Report a scheme
If you've lost money, start here
If you have lost money, start here
Send me whatever you have: wallet addresses, transaction numbers,
screenshots, and the name of whoever got you into it. Reporting a scheme is free and always
will be. I will read it and add it to the record. It may become a report on this site, but I
cannot promise that, and I cannot say when.
Paying is for something different: a written answer about your money, by an agreed
date, in a document you can hand to a solicitor, your bank or the police. Only pay if somebody
is waiting for that document. If you are not sure, send the free report and I will tell you
which one you need. Nothing that identifies you is published unless you say so.
Send what you have — wallet addresses, transaction hashes, screenshots, the name
of whoever recruited you. Reporting a scheme is free and always will be: it puts the scheme on the
record, and it may end up as a published report — no promise either way, and no timescale.
If instead somebody is waiting on a document about your money — a solicitor, your
bank’s fraud team, a compliance desk — that is
commissioned work, answered to a
stated date. Not sure which you need? Send the free report and I will tell you. Nothing
identifying you is published without your say-so.
If someone has offered to recover your losses, read this
first.
Very often the people who took your money are the same people who come
back offering to get it returned. It always looks the same: the paperwork is a few days away,
there is a lawyer or a confidentiality agreement in the way, and somewhere there is a new coin,
a membership, or a fee to pay.
Real recovery never asks you to buy anything. If getting your money back is tied to putting
more money in, that alone is the warning.
The people who took the money are frequently the people who come back offering to get it
returned. The pattern is consistent: a recovery group forms around a collapsed scheme, the
paperwork is always days away, it is always gated behind lawyers or an NDA — and somewhere in
the process there is a new token, a membership, or a fee.
Legitimate recovery never requires you to buy anything. If a recovery route is coupled to a
fresh investment, treat that coupling itself as the warning, whatever else is true about the
people involved.
What a regulated route looks like.
One HyperFund investor got money back through the UK banking system,
using Wealth Recovery Solicitors, a law firm in Manchester. Most
fraud cases are taken on with no fee if they lose.
The point is not that firm. The point is the type. A regulated solicitor can be checked before
you hand over anything: their SRA number is 8000728 and their Companies House number is
11325165. Look both up yourself, the same way you would check a wallet on a blockchain
explorer. Somebody who is not regulated gives you nothing to check, and no protection if it
goes wrong.
I am not paid anything for pointing you there, and no recovery is ever guaranteed. Go to their
website yourself — criminals pretend to be them.
One HyperFund investor known to me recovered capital through the UK banking system with
Wealth Recovery Solicitors, an SRA-regulated law firm in
Manchester working on a no-win-no-fee basis for most fraud cases.
The point is not the firm — it is the category. A regulated solicitor is checkable before you
hand over anything: SRA
8000728 · Companies
House 11325165. Verify both on the SRA and Companies House registers yourself, exactly
as you would verify a wallet against a block explorer. An unregulated “recovery agent” offers
you none of that, and no professional indemnity if it goes wrong.
Signposted, not endorsed — no recovery is guaranteed, and I
take nothing for the referral. Note that WRS publish their own warning about fraudsters
impersonating them, so approach them through their own site rather than an inbound
message.
Reporting a scheme is free. There is also a
guide to reporting
this to the police in your country →
CrYptOG — on-chain forensic investigator, known within the Avengers Anti-Fraud
Alliance as The Ledger. In crypto since 2017: first the fundamentals — technical
analysis, and the difference between UTXO and account-based settlement — before
specialising in chain analytics and smart-contract analysis. Publishing investigations
since 2020, and part of the Avengers since the concept formed in 2023.
Everything here is checked against public chain data before it goes out.
