In March 2025, a 42-year-old client from London reported losing $82,500 USDT after falling for a fake “crypto investment doubling platform” promoted via Instagram. The scammer convinced the victim to deposit funds into a Tron-based USDT address and then blocked the client once the transfer was completed.
On March 15, 2025, Evelyn Hart began tracing the USDT through multiple TRC-20 wallet hops. Using advanced tracing tools and CEX deposit tagging, she identified consolidation into a Binance custodial wallet.
On March 18, 2025, Jonathan Miller collected OSINT data linking the scammer’s Telegram username to a real identity. Evidence was submitted to Binance, which froze the wallet on March 23, 2025.
$78,430 USDT was successfully returned to the client on March 28, 2025 after Binance’s KYC verification.
A Dubai-based NFT creator lost 4.38 ETH after interacting with a malicious NFT minting link. The link triggered a signature drain, granting the scammer approval to move assets.
On January 6, 2025, Bradley Turner analyzed the malicious contract and created a counter-contract to revoke approvals. Evelyn Hart traced the scam wallet for transaction evidence. By January 8, Bradley’s recovery script retrieved 3.91 ETH to a new wallet.
3.91 ETH (89.3% of stolen funds) was recovered and returned to the client on January 9, 2025.
A 31-year-old woman was deceived in a 2-month romance scam, losing $51,000 in BTC and USDT to a fake “joint investment” exchange.
Samantha Hayes led client interviews and data collection. Jonathan Miller traced the scammer’s activity, linking them to a known fraud ring. The stolen funds were tracked to KuCoin and mixed through several accounts.
With proper evidence, a court preservation order was issued compelling KuCoin to cooperate.
$44,700 was returned to the client after compliance verification. A criminal case was opened against the scammer.