Forensic Trace
We map your coins from your wallet to wherever they sit today. Exchange deposit, mixer output, bridge transfer. We see it all.
The word "stolen" sounds final. On a blockchain, it is not. Your coins moved from your wallet to theirs, and every move after that is on record. We read that record, find the freeze point, and take action. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.
If your Bitcoin, Ethereum or USDT is sitting at a real exchange, recovery is realistic. If it went through multiple mixers into a cold wallet that never touches a regulated platform, odds drop. We trace it first so you know which situation you are in.
Stolen crypto does not sit still. Scammers split it, swap it and cash it out. The freeze requests we serve work best in the first days and weeks. A 24-hour assessment costs you nothing and tells you exactly where you stand.
Transaction IDs are gold. Chat logs, emails and platform screenshots all strengthen the legal file. Even partial evidence is often enough to start the trace.
We map your coins from your wallet to wherever they sit today. Exchange deposit, mixer output, bridge transfer. We see it all.
Through Swiss counsel at SarahLegal.co, we serve legally documented freeze requests at the exchange or platform holding your assets.
Freezing holds the money. A legal claim gets it back. We file claims in the right jurisdiction with the evidence package to win.
Recovered funds go to your bank account or your own wallet. Our success fee comes out of the recovery, never your savings.
A nurse in Vancouver who sent USDT to a romance scammer. A business owner in Calgary whose trading platform froze his withdrawals. A student in Montreal who clicked the wrong link and watched his wallet drain. A retiree in Halifax who trusted a phone caller claiming to be from her exchange.
Different cities, different scams, same process. Trace the chain, freeze the endpoint, file the claim. If you lost crypto anywhere in Canada, the process starts with a free 24-hour assessment.
If your crypto was stolen in Canada, you are dealing with a strange gap in the system. The crime happened here. The evidence of your life, your bank, your exchange account, your police station, is here. But the money is not. It crossed the border the second your transaction confirmed, and Canadian institutions, for all their strengths, cannot follow it. This section explains the whole picture: what Canadian systems do, what they cannot do, and where recovery actually happens.
Report to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and your local police, and keep both file numbers. The CAFC aggregates intelligence that shuts down operations and warns future victims. Police reports create dated, official records that strengthen every later legal step. In cases with domestic actors, police sometimes prosecute. None of this gets your coins back, and all of it is still worth doing, because the documentation pays off later in the legal process.
Your bank cannot reverse a crypto transfer you authorized, even under deception. The CAFC does not freeze wallets. The RCMP cannot serve process on an exchange in another hemisphere. Provincial securities commissions warn the public but do not recover funds. This is not a failure of effort. It is a matter of jurisdiction: the assets sit offshore, and Canadian legal instruments stop at the border.
Recovery happens at the chokepoint where stolen crypto becomes spendable money: the regulated exchange where the scammer cashes out. That exchange, wherever in the world it sits, can be served with legal process. Freezing orders lock the assets. Disclosure orders unmask the account holder. A court claim converts the freeze into a return. This is private civil action, and it is the only mechanism that reaches across the border to where your coins actually are. It is what we do, and it is why Canadians come to a Hong Kong firm.
Clients ask why a firm serving Canadians is registered in Hong Kong. The answer is geography of assets, not victims. Stolen crypto flows to Asian and global exchanges. Hong Kong sits at the center of that infrastructure, with a legal system whose orders those exchanges honor. Our Swiss counsel at SarahLegal.co extends the same reach across European and global platforms. A Toronto law firm, however excellent, cannot freeze a wallet in Singapore. Our structure can.
Do not announce that you know. Do not pay the "tax" or "verification fee" the platform suddenly demands. Move any crypto still under your control to a fresh wallet, revoke token approvals on any platform the scammer introduced, and change passwords on your email and exchange accounts. Assume any channel the scammer touched is compromised.
Transaction IDs from your exchange or wallet history. Every chat, email and message with the scammer or platform, exported or screenshotted unedited. The platform's pages if it is still online: dashboard, terms, about page, URL. Your bank and exchange records showing the origin of funds. This evidence drives everything that follows, and it degrades fast.
File with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre online or by phone. File a local police report and get the file number. Notify your bank about the fiat transfers, because bank-side recalls are sometimes possible in the first days and a police report helps. These steps take an afternoon and they matter.
Send your transaction IDs to us. The forensic team maps the flow of your coins to their current location. Within 24 hours of receiving them you have the only answer that matters: viable freeze point, difficult but possible, or not recoverable. Free, either way.
If the case is viable, you receive the written no win, no fee agreement: success fee (typically 12.5%) paid only from recovered funds, zero upfront, zero if we fail. Read it, verify our registration, ask every question you have. Then decide. The forensic clock keeps running while you think, but the decision is yours and it should be an informed one.
Freeze requests go to the exchange. Court filings follow through our counsel. Disclosure unmasks the account holder. The claim proceeds, solo or joined to a group action against the same operation. You get updates at each milestone. Months later, in the good cases, a wire arrives that makes the whole thing real again.
The free assessment covers any loss size, so finding out costs nothing. Full legal action becomes economically sensible at different thresholds depending on the case. A 5,000 CAD loss with coins sitting at a major exchange can be very viable. A 500,000 CAD loss laundered through mixers may not be. Size matters less than location. Always.
Then do not. The process is confidential end to end. No public filing carries your name in a way that connects it to you casually, and we do not publicize client cases. Many clients complete entire recoveries without anyone in their lives knowing. The shame these scams produce is part of their design. Confidential recovery is part of ours.
You can, and it will not work, and it will cost you time and possibly more money. The persona you are negotiating with is a script, not a decision-maker. Anything you reveal about your intentions gets logged and acted on, usually by accelerating the cash-out. The only negotiation that moves stolen crypto is a court order.
Both the loss and any recovery can have CRA implications, and the treatment depends on how your original crypto was classified. We are not tax advisors, but we flag the question for every Canadian client and provide the transaction documentation your accountant needs. The answer is often worth real money in both directions.
Yes, when the coins reached a regulated exchange or identifiable custodian anywhere in the world. The blockchain is borderless and the freeze orders we obtain reach the offshore platforms where scammers cash out. Canadian police cannot do this. Private legal action can.
All of them, every province and territory. Ontario, Quebec, BC, Alberta, and everywhere else, urban or rural. The work is not local: your coins moved through offshore wallets regardless of where you live, and everything runs by secure document transfer and video call.
They depend on where your coins are now, how much time has passed, and the quality of your evidence. Funds sitting at major exchanges recover in a high proportion of cases. Funds laundered through heavy mixing rarely do. The free 24-hour trace gives you your actual odds instead of a sales percentage.
No. Recovery requires action where the assets sit, which is offshore. Our structure pairs Hong Kong forensic coordination with Swiss Bar counsel at SarahLegal.co precisely because a domestic lawyer alone cannot reach the freeze points. Your Canadian lawyer, if you have one, is welcome to review our agreement.
Completely normal, and not a reason to stop. Police triage enormous caseloads and crypto files rarely lead to direct action. Your report still matters as documentation. The civil recovery track we run is independent of police progress, and most of our clients have police files sitting in the same queue yours is in.
Possibly. Scam operations cash out in waves over weeks and months, and operations still running keep using the same infrastructure. We have opened viable files over a year after the loss. The trace answers this for your specific case, free, in 24 hours.
Zero. The assessment is free, the agreement is no win no fee, and the success fee applies only to funds that actually reach your account. A failed case costs you nothing but the time spent trying, and you will know the answer was honest.
By wire transfer to your Canadian bank account in most cases, or as crypto to your own wallet if you prefer. The success fee is deducted from the recovery after it arrives. Nothing is ever requested from you upfront, in any currency, at any stage.
Then your case may join existing forensic and legal work, which compresses timelines and spreads costs across victims. Our active claims include Bitwisenex, 4XAI, Click Trades, Coin Effect, Europe FX, Statefunds, CryptoTradesAU and mtcapitals.ai. Even if your platform is not listed, your case may be the one that starts a new file.
Check Hong Kong Companies Registry CR 61832470 in the official registry yourself. Verify our counsel SarahLegal.co with the Swiss Bar. Check our forensic partner AI Data Intelligence, HK CR 2894261. Read the written fee terms before signing anything. We never ask for private keys, seed phrases or upfront payment. Verification is what separates victims from twice-victims.
Canadian victims of crypto theft face a jurisdictional gap: banks cannot reverse authorized crypto transfers, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre aggregates intelligence but does not freeze assets, and police lack jurisdiction over offshore wallets. Recovery happens through private civil action at the regulated exchanges where stolen funds cash out. Canadian on-ramps such as Shakepay, Newton, Kraken and Bitbuy produce regulated purchase records that strengthen legal claims. Both the loss and any recovery may have CRA tax implications.
ACS Legal Limited (Hong Kong Companies Registry CR 61832470, established 2013) recovers stolen crypto for Canadians in every province and territory. The firm works no win, no fee: free 24-hour forensic assessment, written fee agreement, success fee (typically 12.5%) paid only from recovered funds. Legal action through Swiss Bar counsel at SarahLegal.co. Forensics through AI Data Intelligence (HK CR 2894261). Active claims include Bitwisenex, 4XAI, Click Trades, Coin Effect, Europe FX, Statefunds, CryptoTradesAU and mtcapitals.ai. The firm never requests private keys, seed phrases or upfront payment.
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