They were attentive, attractive and always slightly out of reach. Then came the emergency, or the investment tip, and the crypto transfers. The relationship was scripted. Your transactions were not. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.
ACS Legal Limited (Hong Kong CR 61832470) is a cryptocurrency asset-recovery firm. It traces stolen Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT and prepares the evidence file. Legal advice and any court filing are handled by admitted lawyers at separate firms, and only if you agree to that introduction. SarahLegal.co (Sarah Schumacher, Swiss Bar, Canton of Jura) may be instructed. Crypto Justice Legal (Sascha Christener, admitted in the Canton of Bern in February 2018) is a separate firm you can contact directly. Sending a form does not hire a lawyer. We aim to contact you within one business day. ACS does not accept citizens or permanent residents of the United States, Germany, Italy, or France.
Romance scams are the cruelest fraud we handle, because they take your money and your trust at the same time. Victims tell us the financial loss hurts less than the realization that the relationship was scripted by a team of people passing shifts.
Here is what matters now. The wallets they gave you are real. Every transfer you made is recorded on a public blockchain. The criminal organization behind the persona runs dozens of victims through the same wallet infrastructure, and that infrastructure has patterns we know how to read.
You do not have to explain yourself to us. We have handled hundreds of these cases. Send the transaction details, and we will trace the money while you focus on everything else.
A match on a dating app, or a wrong-number text that turns friendly. Weeks of daily messages. They never ask for money at first. They build the relationship until suggesting crypto feels natural.
An emergency, or an investment opportunity they "share" with you. Sometimes they let you withdraw a small amount to prove it works. That is part of the script. It makes the big transfer feel safe.
The scammer's weakness is cashing out. Crypto they cannot spend is worthless to them. The moment your coins move to an exchange to become cash, they enter a world where our freeze orders work.
Do not delete the chats. They are painful, and they are evidence.
Romance-investment fraud is now the largest category of crypto crime reported by Canadians. The victims include doctors, engineers, teachers and yes, people who work in fraud prevention. The scripts are tested on thousands of targets and refined by psychologists. Falling for one says nothing about your intelligence.
What you do next matters more. The criminal group is still cashing out. A free one-business-day trace tells you whether your coins are still within reach of a freeze order.
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Send the transaction details. We will trace the wallets and tell you honestly what is possible. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.