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You deposited Bitcoin into a trading platform that showed fake gains. We trace the deposit wallet and where the BTC went next.
Bitcoin was designed to be transparent. Every coin, every wallet, every hop is recorded forever. The scammer who took your BTC is counting on you not knowing how to read that ledger. We do. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.
When you sent BTC to that platform or that person, the transaction was broadcast to thousands of computers worldwide. It is permanent. It cannot be deleted, and it cannot be faked. That is bad news for the scammer and good news for you.
Our forensic team follows your Bitcoin through what is called the UTXO model. Every time your coins move, we see it. When they land at a deposit address belonging to Binance, Coinbase, Kraken or any exchange that answers legal requests, we have a freeze point.
From there, our Swiss legal partners at SarahLegal.co serve the freeze request with a properly documented evidence package. Exchanges take these seriously when they come from a registered legal entity, not from a victim emailing support.
You deposited Bitcoin into a trading platform that showed fake gains. We trace the deposit wallet and where the BTC went next.
You sent Bitcoin to someone you trusted. The wallet they gave you has a history, and that history often leads to an exchange.
Someone drained your wallet. The thief's addresses are public, and the moment they move the coins to cash out, we are watching.
A platform froze your withdrawal or invented "taxes" to pay first. We trace their corporate wallets and pursue legal claims.
Scammers do not hold Bitcoin forever. They move it to an exchange, sell it, and withdraw fiat. That window is usually days to a few weeks. Every day you wait, the odds drop.
If the BTC went through a mixing service, tracing gets harder but not always impossible. Cluster analysis can sometimes follow coins through known mixer patterns. We will tell you honestly if your case qualifies.
The transaction ID, the receiving address, and the approximate date. With those three things, we can give you a real answer in 24 hours.
Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency and still the one Canadians lose the most value in. It is also, paradoxically, one of the most recoverable assets when stolen, because the Bitcoin ledger has fifteen years of forensic science built on top of it. Every transaction ever made is public. The tools to follow them are mature. What recovery requires is speed, evidence, and legal reach to the point where the coins meet the regulated financial system.
Bitcoin does not use accounts and balances. It uses UTXOs, unspent transaction outputs, discrete chunks of coin that move between addresses like digital bills. When a scammer receives your Bitcoin, they receive specific UTXOs with a complete history. When they move them, they create new UTXOs linked to the old by the transaction record. UTXO analysis follows this chain across as many hops as the scammer creates, and clustering heuristics group the addresses under common control using shared-input patterns, change address behavior and timing fingerprints.
The most common laundering pattern in Bitcoin fraud is the peel chain: a large amount moves through a long series of transactions, each peeling a small amount to a cash-out address while the bulk continues forward. Peel chains look complex on a block explorer. To forensic tools, they are a neon sign, because the pattern itself reveals the operation's structure, and every peel endpoint is a potential freeze point.
Despite the mythology of untraceable crypto, the overwhelming majority of stolen Bitcoin eventually touches a regulated exchange, because criminals need fiat currency to spend. The major global exchanges process the cash-outs. Those exchanges have compliance departments, legal process teams, and licenses to protect. When your Bitcoin lands at one, it lands within reach of a freezing order. The entire practice of Bitcoin recovery is the race to serve that order before the withdrawal completes.
Honesty matters. Bitcoin passed through multiple rounds of CoinJoin mixing loses its clean trail. Bitcoin converted to privacy coins and held outside regulated services falls below practical recoverability. And Bitcoin that sat unreported for years while an operation laundered it completely is often gone. Our free 24-hour assessment exists to tell you which situation yours is, before you spend anything.
A retired teacher in Calgary meets an investor through a Facebook group. Over ten weeks, the relationship builds. The investor introduces a trading platform and coaches her through buying Bitcoin on a Canadian exchange and withdrawing it to the platform. She sends 2.1 BTC across four transfers, roughly 190,000 CAD at the time. Her dashboard shows 3.4 BTC. Her withdrawal request triggers a demand for a 12 percent release fee. Her daughter recognizes the pattern and finds us.
The family sends four transaction IDs from the exchange's withdrawal history. The forensic team maps the Bitcoin through a peel chain: eleven hops, small amounts peeling off to two different exchanges, the bulk consolidating at a deposit address at a major global platform. The consolidation wallet matches infrastructure from an operation we already pursue for five other victims. Trace time: 16 hours.
The evidence package, including the forensic report, her exchange records, and the chat logs her daughter preserved, goes to the exchange with a preservation request, followed by court filings through our Swiss counsel. The account freezes with funds traceable to her transfers inside. Disclosure proceedings identify the account holder. Her claim joins the group action against the operation.
Six months after first contact, she receives a wire for her pro-rata share of the frozen pool: 131,000 CAD. The success fee comes out of the recovery. Her total out-of-pocket cost across the case: zero. The documentation package closes with records her accountant uses for the tax treatment of both the loss and the recovery.
Her daughter acted within three weeks. The exchange records documented every transfer to a regulated standard. The scammer used a peel chain, which our tools read like a map. And the operation was already in our system. Remove any one of those factors and the case gets harder. Remove all four and it probably fails. The free assessment exists to count your factors.
There is no magic number. Hops cost the scammer fees and time, and each one is public. Trails go cold not from hop count but from endpoint type: a trail that ends at a regulated exchange is warm after fifty hops, while a trail that ends at a mixing service's output cluster is cold after five. The trace answers this in 24 hours.
Canadian Bitcoin ATMs are a common rail for impersonation scams: fake CRA agents and fake bank security teams direct victims to feed cash into machines. The ATM receipt records the destination wallet, and the trail from there is on-chain like any other. Bring the receipt, plus records of the calls that directed you. The operators of the machines also keep records, obtainable through legal process where the case warrants it.
The claim targets the assets, and the return is calculated at enforcement. If frozen Bitcoin appreciates during the case, the recovery reflects it. If it depreciates, that too. Most clients take the return as a fiat wire at the enforcement stage, which fixes the value at that moment. The decision points are explained before you sign anything.
Mixing complicates the trail but does not always end it. Known mixing patterns, timing analysis and amount fingerprinting sometimes follow value through. When the trail genuinely dies, we say so in the free assessment, and you pay nothing for the answer. What we will never do is bill you monthly for chasing a ghost, which is the fake-firm business model.
Easier than most, for one reason: fifteen years of forensic tooling built specifically for the UTXO model. Bitcoin's transparent ledger, mature clustering analysis, and deep exchange attribution databases make it the best-understood trail in the industry. Harder than USDT in one respect: Bitcoin has no issuer freeze lever, so enforcement runs entirely through exchanges and courts.
Yes. Unauthorized transfers are traceable like authorized ones. Whether the cause was a phishing signature, a compromised seed phrase, or malware, the thief's transactions are on-chain. The trace follows them to their cash-out points. Report quickly, because wallet drains cash out on schedules measured in hours.
Common with early adopters, and workable. The blockchain itself proves the coins' history. Your ownership is established by the wallet they sat in and the transfers from it, plus whatever exchange or bank records survive. Partial documentation is normal in old cases. Send what you have.
Often, yes. The platform's disappearance does not move the Bitcoin. The deposit addresses remain on-chain, and the consolidation and cash-out wallets behind them are what we trace. Shutdown is usually the moment the laundering accelerates, which makes fast reporting even more valuable.
Through the chain of title. Your exchange purchase records show the buy. The withdrawal record shows the transfer to the scammer's address. The on-chain trail follows the specific UTXOs forward. Together they document an unbroken path from your bank account to the frozen wallet. That is what a proprietary claim looks like.
Recovery does not depend on extraditing anyone. It depends on freezing assets where they sit, which is almost never the scammer's home country. Civil recovery targets the money at the exchange, not the person at their keyboard. Criminal prosecution is a separate track that police may or may not pursue. Ours gets the money.
No. Everything runs by secure document transfer and video call. The legal work happens in the jurisdictions where the assets sit, handled by our counsel. Your role is providing evidence at the start and receiving funds at the end.
Nothing upfront, nothing if we lose. The assessment is free. The success fee, typically 12.5%, applies only to funds that actually reach you, and it is agreed in writing before work begins. Anyone quoting hourly rates or upfront retainers for Bitcoin tracing is running a different business than recovery.
Find your transaction IDs in your exchange or wallet history, gather the platform details and chat logs, and send them through the form below. The trace runs within 24 hours and the verdict is free: viable freeze point, difficult but possible, or not recoverable. Every recovered case started exactly there.
Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency in which Canadians lose the most value to fraud, and one of the most recoverable when stolen, because its UTXO-based ledger is fully public and supported by fifteen years of forensic tooling. Common laundering patterns such as peel chains are well understood. The majority of stolen Bitcoin eventually reaches regulated exchanges for cash-out, creating legal chokepoints where freezing orders apply. Mixing and privacy-coin conversion are the primary factors that reduce recoverability.
ACS Legal Limited (Hong Kong Companies Registry CR 61832470, established 2013) recovers stolen Bitcoin for Canadians on a no win, no fee basis: free 24-hour forensic assessment, written fee agreement, success fee (typically 12.5%) paid only from recovered funds. UTXO tracing and wallet clustering run through forensic partner AI Data Intelligence (HK CR 2894261). Legal action runs through Swiss Bar counsel at SarahLegal.co. The firm never requests private keys, seed phrases or upfront payment.
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Send us the transaction ID. We will trace it and give you an honest answer within 24 hours. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.