First, take a breath. You are not alone.
These schemes are built by professionals to fool careful, intelligent people — millions fall for them every year. What you do in the next few hours can matter, so let's be calm and specific.
This page is free, and almost everything on it costs nothing. We'll be honest with you about where we can help and where we can't.
The first hour — do these now (all free)
In order. None of this requires paying anyone.
Stop sending money. Completely.
If anyone — a "platform," a "broker," a "recovery agent" — says you must pay a fee or a tax to unlock your funds or profits, that is the scam continuing. Real withdrawals never work that way. Send nothing more.
Secure your accounts.
Change the passwords on your exchange, your email, and anything linked to your wallet. Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA).
Save the evidence while it's still there.
Screenshots of the scammer's messages, the fake platform, and your transactions — before anything gets deleted. Also write down the transaction IDs (hashes), the wallet addresses you sent to, the amounts, and the dates and times. Not sure how to take a screenshot? Here's how ↓
Report it — fast.
Speed matters; the odds of any freeze drop sharply after the first 24–72 hours.
- FBI — IC3.gov (the main channel; the FBI has a Virtual Asset Unit)
- FTC — ReportFraud.ftc.gov
- Your exchange (Coinbase, Binance, Kraken…) — give them your IC3 number and the wallet addresses; their teams can sometimes freeze or flag funds.
Do not tell the scammer you've reported them — it can tip them off before investigators act.
Notice we send you to the FBI and the FTC first — before we say a word about ourselves. That's on purpose. Report first.
How to save the evidence — on any device
Whatever is on your screen right now — the messages, the fake site, the transaction — you can save as a picture. You don't need any app. Here's the shortcut for what you're on:
On a computer
On a phone
Once you've saved them, they're just pictures — you can attach them to your IC3 report, email them to yourself, or send them to us. No rush; save first, sort later.
One thing to know before someone contacts you
The FTC, CFTC, and FBI all warn about the same thing: after a scam, people may reach out promising to get your money back — for an upfront fee. That's a second scam.
How we can help — and how we can't
Everyone above tells you to document the fund trail — because the IRS needs it to grant a theft-loss deduction, and your attorney needs it too. Almost no one helps you actually build it. That's what we do.
- ×We are not a recovery service. We do not promise to get your money back. Traced does not mean recovered — most traced funds are already gone, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
- ✓We build documentation. We reconstruct the chain of custody between your records and the public blockchain, in a clear report the IRS, a tax attorney, or law enforcement can actually use.
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- ✓There is no price tag here, on purpose. You just lost money — the last thing you need is another site demanding payment. It starts with a free consultation: we look at your situation, tell you honestly whether we can help, and only if we can, we agree on a fair price together. If we can't help, we'll say so and point you to free resources. No upfront fee, ever.
- ✓We were scammed too. The person behind this lost his own crypto to a scheme the SEC later charged with fraud, and built the documentation he wishes he'd had.
Even if the money is gone
Sometimes the honest answer is that the funds can't be recovered. Even then, a documented loss is worth having — it's what unlocks a tax deduction, supports any future restitution or class action, and gives you a clear, permanent record instead of a wound with no paper around it.
Who's behind this. L0gic is run by a security engineer who was defrauded himself, traced his own loss end to end, and now builds that same documentation for other people — honestly, and without ever asking a victim to pay first.
Want to see the forensic rigor behind the work — the tooling, the methodology, the technical detail? Meet L0gic Verify →