These Companies Say They Can Recover Stolen Crypto. That Rarely Happens.

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After being scammed for over $500,000, one man paid one such company $6,500 to recover his stolen savings. A year later, he’s received nothing — and he’s not alone.

.” Blockchain Intelligence Group charged GASO $6,000 per year for its tool.

From there, the investigator will take this diagram and use it to create a written report describing where the fraudulently-obtained crypto went. Such reports typically include details like phone numbers connected to the scammers, fake websites that were used in order to perpetrate the fraud, and cryptocurrency exchanges that facilitated the flow of money. Sometimes they explain how law enforcement might go about furthering the investigation.

Shawn Bradstreet, the special agent in charge for the United States Secret Service San Francisco Field Office, toldthat his agency “cannot rely on such third party firms’ analysis” when investigating a crypto scam.with any law enforcement agencies that it claims to have developed relationships with. Greene further toldvia email that sharing contact information would be “in conflict” with law enforcement’s “professional objectives.

Sometimes, such recovery firms ask law enforcement agencies to hand over the KYC information: a name, address, phone number, and other personal details of an account involved in the scheme. These details likely would not point to the ultimate mastermind, as scammers use numerous accounts to steal, launder, and cash out stolen funds.

 

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