Pig Butchering USDT
The scammer coaches you to buy USDT and send it to their platform. We trace the deposit wallet and every hop after.
Here is what the scammer does not want you to learn: Tether, the company behind USDT, can freeze tokens at any address when served with a legal order. Your stolen USDT may be one court document away from being locked. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.
Bitcoin has no company behind it. Nobody can freeze BTC at the protocol level. USDT is different. Tether Limited issues every token and maintains the ability to freeze addresses. They do it regularly for law enforcement, and they do it for properly documented legal claims.
That changes everything for recovery. If we can trace your USDT to a specific address and prove the theft with a solid evidence package, there are two paths: freeze it at the exchange where it lands, or petition for a freeze at the token level through Tether itself.
Most "recovery agents" do not know this. They will tell you crypto is untraceable and then ask for a fee anyway. Our forensic partners at AI Data Intelligence trace USDT daily, and our legal team at SarahLegal.co knows exactly what documentation Tether and the exchanges require.
Every transfer is visible on Etherscan. We follow your tokens through every contract interaction, swap and bridge. If the scammer swapped your USDT for ETH or another token, we trace that too.
Scammers love TRC-20 because the fees are cheap. Victims think cheap means untraceable. It does not. Tron is a public ledger just like Ethereum, and we read it the same way.
Did your USDT move from Ethereum to Tron through a bridge or exchange? We follow it. Cross-chain movement slows us down by hours, not weeks.
Not sure which network? Send the transaction hash anyway. We will identify it.
The scammer coaches you to buy USDT and send it to their platform. We trace the deposit wallet and every hop after.
Your USDT "balance" on screen was never real. But your deposit was, and it went somewhere traceable.
Fake "Tether support" or fake exchange agents asking you to move USDT to a "safe wallet." That wallet is theirs, and it has a history.
You signed a malicious approval and your USDT was drained. The thief's addresses are public and traceable.
Tether dominates crypto fraud in Canada for simple reasons. It is stable, so the scammer's victim psychology is never disturbed by price swings. It is liquid everywhere, so cashing out is easy. And it moves on fast, cheap networks, so the victim's transfer confirms in seconds. But the properties that make USDT attractive to criminals make it attractive to recovery too, and one property in particular gives USDT victims an edge that Bitcoin victims do not have.
Tether, the company, controls the USDT smart contract. It can freeze USDT at any address when presented with valid legal process, and it has done so in hundreds of cases involving fraud, theft and sanctions. This means a USDT recovery has two enforcement levers: the exchange-level freeze that applies to any crypto, and the contract-level freeze that applies to USDT alone. When our trace shows your USDT sitting at an address Tether can act on, the recovery options double.
Most Canadian scam victims sent USDT on Tron (TRC-20) because the fees are near zero, or on Ethereum (ERC-20) because their exchange defaulted to it. Both networks are fully transparent and fully traceable. Tron's speed means scammers move funds faster after receipt, which raises the premium on quick reporting. Ethereum's deeper analytics tooling makes clustering analysis slightly richer. Neither network protects the scammer. Both trails are public, permanent and followable.
The pattern we see weekly: the victim buys USDT on a Canadian exchange like Shakepay, Newton, Kraken or Bitbuy, then withdraws to a wallet address provided by the scammer. From there, the USDT hops through two to six intermediary wallets, sometimes splitting across addresses, then consolidates into a deposit wallet at a major international exchange for cash-out. Every hop is on-chain. The consolidation point is the freeze point. The whole journey takes the scammer hours to days, and it takes our tools hours to map.
Canadian on-ramps are regulated, which means your purchase records are precise: amounts, timestamps, destination addresses. That documentation proves the origin of funds to a court standard. Victims sometimes worry that using a Canadian exchange complicates things. The opposite is true. Regulated purchase records are among the strongest evidence a recovery case can have.
A Vancouver contractor is added to a WhatsApp investment group. The group's analyst shares daily signals, members post profit screenshots, and the platform shows steady gains. Over three months, he sends 140,000 CAD worth of USDT, purchased on a Canadian exchange and withdrawn to the platform's deposit addresses. When he requests a withdrawal of 50,000 USDT, support demands a 10 percent security deposit. He refuses. The group goes silent within a week.
He sends us six transaction hashes from his exchange withdrawal history. The forensic team maps the USDT across Tron: his wallet to the platform's rotating deposit addresses, through a consolidation wallet, splitting once, then into a deposit address at a major global exchange. The consolidation wallet matches infrastructure from two other active files. Trace time: 11 hours.
The evidence package goes to the exchange's legal process team with a preservation request, followed by the court filing. The account freezes holding a balance that includes funds traceable to our client's transfers. Because the wallet cluster links multiple victims, the freeze captures more than any single claim, and the group action allocates the pool.
Disclosure identifies the account holder as a shell entity tied to a known fraud network. The claim is uncontested on the merits. Four and a half months after first contact, the client receives 96,000 CAD equivalent by wire to his Canadian bank account, his pro-rata share of the frozen pool. The success fee comes out of that recovery. His total out-of-pocket cost: nothing.
Three things made this case. He kept his exchange withdrawal records, so every transfer was documented to a regulated standard. He acted within weeks of the platform going dark, before the cash-out completed. And the operation was already in our system, which cut the forensic phase from days to hours. Not every case has all three, but every case is decided by how many it has.
Volatile coins invite obfuscation because their value fluctuates during the laundering process. Stablecoins move in predictable amounts at stable value, which makes amount-fingerprinting analysis more reliable. When a scammer splits 100,000 USDT into four 25,000 chunks, those chunks are easier to follow than equivalent-value splits in a coin that moved 8 percent during the transfers.
Scammers sometimes swap USDT for other tokens mid-laundering. Swaps on decentralized exchanges are public and traceable. Swaps inside centralized exchanges happen off-chain, but the deposit and withdrawal remain visible, and the exchange's records, obtainable by disclosure order, fill the gap. A swap slows the trace. It does not erase it.
USDT moved across chains via bridges leaves records on both sides: the lock or burn on the source chain, the mint or release on the destination. Bridge analysis adds hours to a trace, not weeks. The endpoint still has to be an off-ramp, and off-ramps are where the law lives.
Honesty matters here. USDT converted to a privacy coin and held outside regulated services falls below practical recoverability. USDT cashed out through a long chain of small OTC brokers takes longer and costs more to follow. And USDT that sat unreported for a year while the operation laundered it completely is often gone. The free assessment exists to tell you which situation yours is, before you spend a dollar.
Yes, and this is unique to USDT. Tether can freeze funds at the contract level when presented with valid legal process. We pursue the exchange-level freeze and, where the facts support it, the issuer-level freeze in parallel. Two levers beat one.
Both networks are fully traceable. TRC-20 moves faster, which raises the premium on quick reporting. ERC-20 has richer analytics tooling. Neither protects the scammer. Tell us which network you used, or just send the transaction hashes and we will see it immediately.
Completely. Your Shakepay withdrawal history records the destination address and transaction hash for every send. That documentation is court-grade evidence of the origin of funds, and the on-chain trail from the destination address is public. Canadian on-ramps make cases stronger, not weaker.
No. If the swap happened on a decentralized exchange, it is on-chain and visible. If it happened inside a centralized exchange, the deposit and withdrawal are visible and the exchange's records are obtainable by disclosure order. Swaps slow the trace. They do not erase it.
Fast. The first cash-out wave typically happens within days of receipt, which is why our assessment runs in 24 hours. Later waves can take months, and operations that stay active keep using the same infrastructure, which is why older cases are sometimes still viable. The free trace tells you where your coins are now.
Each platform gets its own trace, but the forensic work often overlaps, because scam platforms share wallet infrastructure more often than victims expect. Send everything. The pattern-matching across your transfers is included in the free assessment.
Yes, and these are among our most common Canadian files. The relationship was fake, but the transfers are real and on-chain. Romance scam wallets typically belong to organized operations running many victims simultaneously, which creates clustering patterns our tools detect.
Your choice, within practical limits. Most clients take a wire transfer in CAD to their bank account, because it is simple and clean for tax records. Some prefer crypto to their own wallet. The recovery order specifies the assets, and the conversion happens at the enforcement stage.
Zero. The trace is free, the agreement is no win no fee, and the success fee (typically 12.5%) applies only to funds that actually reach you. A failed case costs nothing but the time spent trying, and you will know the outcome was honest.
Check Hong Kong Companies Registry CR 61832470 yourself, in the official registry. Verify our legal partner SarahLegal.co with the Swiss Bar. Read the written no win, no fee terms before signing. Note that we never ask for private keys, seed phrases or upfront payment. A legitimate firm welcomes verification. A fake one deflects it.
Tether (USDT) is the dominant payment rail in crypto fraud targeting Canadians, because it is price-stable, liquid and fast. USDT moves on transparent networks (Tron and Ethereum), making it fully traceable. Uniquely among major cryptocurrencies, USDT can be frozen at the contract level by its issuer when presented with valid legal process, giving victims two enforcement levers: the exchange-level freeze and the issuer-level freeze. Canadian on-ramps such as Shakepay, Newton, Kraken and Bitbuy produce regulated purchase records that strengthen legal claims.
ACS Legal Limited (Hong Kong Companies Registry CR 61832470, established 2013) recovers stolen USDT 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. The firm traces USDT on TRC-20 and ERC-20, pursues exchange-level and issuer-level freezes, and works with Swiss Bar counsel at SarahLegal.co and forensic partner AI Data Intelligence (HK CR 2894261). The firm never requests private keys, seed phrases or upfront payment.
Free Assessment
Send the transaction hash. We will map where your Tether went and tell you honestly if it can be frozen. No win, no fee. $0 upfront.