What our clients say once the funds are home.
Recorded statements from cftrace clients whose files have been closed and funds released. Identifying details are redacted at each client's request.
Real outcomes, names removed.
Client identities are confidential, so we publish the numbers, the route and the time it took. Recovery is never guaranteed and we say so before you engage us.
Fake trading desk, funds routed through three exchanges. Frozen at the receiving venue and returned through a regulated escrow.
Reported to exchange compliance within 48 hours of the client's first call. Held pending court direction, then released to the client.
Romance-scam matter on the UK pathway. Disclosure order against the receiving bank identified the account holder.
Business email compromise. Coordinated freezing requests filed the same day the wire left the client's bank.
Recovered assets.
Documented results.
Names and identifying details are withheld at each client's request. The videos below are shared with their permission. Outcomes only, no personal stories.
Reviews we did not write.
Every review below is left on a public platform by a client whose case has closed. We cannot edit or remove them, and we never ask a client to change one.
“I lost £61,000 to a fake investment desk. cftrace mapped where it went in four days and told me exactly what to say to my bank. First people who did not disappear after taking my details.”
“They were blunt with me about what was realistic. Part of it was gone for good, the rest was frozen at an exchange. Getting a straight answer was worth more than the promises I got elsewhere.”
“My case officer sent an update every Friday for eleven weeks. Not once did I have to chase them. The report they produced was accepted by my solicitor without changes.”
The files behind the testimony.
Each write-up below is a closed cftrace file: the client's situation, the route the funds took, the step that worked, how long it took and what it cost. Names, wallet addresses and institutions are withheld under our confidentiality terms - the numbers are unchanged.
Cloned trading desk, three exchange hops
The client believed they were funding a managed trading account with a firm that had cloned the branding of a real brokerage. Deposits were made in five tranches over eleven weeks. When a withdrawal was requested, the desk demanded a 'release fee' - the point at which the client contacted us.
- Client loss type
- Fake trading platform
- Jurisdiction
- Singapore
- Time to outcome
- 23 days
- On-chain route
- Bitcoin → stablecoin bridge → centralised exchange
14.2 BTC frozen at the receiving venue in 48 hours
The client transferred a single large amount after months of grooming through a messaging app. The receiving address was a hosted wallet, which meant the venue - not the fraudster - controlled the balance.
- Client loss type
- Investment scam, off-ramp at exchange
- Jurisdiction
- Exchange compliance pathway
- Time to outcome
- 48 hours to freeze
- On-chain route
- Bitcoin → exchange deposit address
Bank disclosure order identified the account holder
Payments began as small bank transfers and escalated into crypto purchases made by the client on the fraudster's instructions. Part of the funds had already been withdrawn to private wallets and were unrecoverable; the remainder sat in a domestic account.
- Client loss type
- Romance / relationship fraud
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- Time to outcome
- 9 weeks
- On-chain route
- Bank transfer → crypto purchase → withdrawal to private wallet
Same-day freezing requests across three countries
A supplier payment was diverted after an email thread was intercepted and the payment instructions altered. The wire was split across three corporate accounts within hours of arrival.
- Client loss type
- Business email compromise
- Jurisdiction
- United States · UAE · Cyprus
- Time to outcome
- 6 weeks
- On-chain route
- Wire transfer → layered corporate accounts → partial crypto conversion
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