§ 01The brief
The client met a 'mentor' on a messaging app who walked him through deposits into a trading platform that showed steady profits. When he tried to withdraw, he was asked for a 20% 'tax'. That is when he stopped and searched for help.
§ 02What I did
- 1.
Traced every deposit on-chain from his wallet through the scam's deposit addresses, a three-way split, and onward.
- 2.
Identified one regulated exchange that received 234,000 USDT, and noted that the rest went to wallets that could not be reached.
- 3.
Wrote the CCS report with every transaction ID and sent the tracing report to the exchange's law-enforcement contact through the right channel.
§ 03The outcome
The exchange froze the account holding 234,000 USDT. Return of those funds is going through a law-enforcement process. The remaining funds were not recoverable, which the client knew before paying for the full report.
“He never pretended it would be all of it. He told me what part could be reached, and that is exactly the part that got frozen.”