Disclaimers and terms

This is not legal or financial advice

Everything this service produces is technical analysis of public blockchain and internet data. It is not legal advice, not financial advice, not tax advice, and not a substitute for any of them. We are not your attorney and no attorney-client relationship is created by using this site or receiving a report. Decisions about litigation, law enforcement, settlement, or what to do with your money should be taken with a qualified professional who knows your full circumstances.

We do not guarantee recovery, and we will not quote you odds

Nothing here predicts or guarantees that any funds will be recovered. No government agency or credible research body publishes a crypto-fraud recovery rate, and every percentage circulating online traces back to marketing by firms selling recovery services. We will not invent one. For most individual cases with no identified exchange account, recovery should not be expected, and we would rather tell you that plainly than take your money on a hope.

What we are, and what we are not

This is automated analysis of public blockchain and internet data. It is not a licensed private investigation, not an audit, and not expert testimony. We do not conduct surveillance, we do not contact the people a submitter names, and we do not hold ourselves out as licensed investigators in any jurisdiction. If your matter needs a licensed investigator or an expert witness, engage one — we will say so rather than take the work.

Names in a report, and your right of reply

A report reproduces what the submitter told us, word for word, because a document a bank or an officer can act on has to show what it was working from. Reproducing an account is not adopting it. Where a person, company or platform is named in a report, it is named by the submitter. We have not investigated them, have not contacted them, and make no finding about their conduct. Every report says this in our own voice, on its first page and again on the page where the names appear.

Our findings are made about addresses, domains and datasets. They are never made about people.

If you have been named in one of our reports, write to corrections@blockchainfraud.org. We will record your response alongside the original account and correct anything shown to be wrong. Reports are held for thirty days, are served from links that cannot be guessed, are not indexed by search engines, and are not published — a report goes to the person who asked for it and to whomever they choose to show it to.

An address is not a person

Nothing in any report identifies who controls any wallet address, and no report should be read as an accusation against any identified individual or company. Attribution of control is a question of fact requiring records we do not have. Where a report names a company, it does so because you mentioned it or because a public dataset lists an address — not as a finding about that company's conduct.

The limits of a clean result

A result showing nothing found means that nothing in the databases we could reach has recorded the subject of your check. It does not mean the subject is safe or legitimate. Fraud infrastructure is routinely only days old and has not yet been reported anywhere, so a brand-new operation looks identical to an innocent one from the point of view of every list in the world. Please treat a clean result as the absence of bad news, never as a clearance.

Sources and availability

Findings come from public and third-party datasets named individually in each report. Those sources are independent of us, can be incomplete or out of date, and are sometimes unreachable. When a source does not answer, we mark it not checked and exclude it from the assessment rather than treating silence as a clean result. We do not control those datasets and cannot correct them.

How we charge

The check on this site is free. Paid work is a flat fee stated in advance, before any work begins. We never take a percentage of recovered funds — a contingency fee would give us a reason to promise a recovery, and a quiet reason to prefer clients who called too late to be helped.

We will never contact you unsolicited offering to recover funds. If someone claiming to be us does, it is not us. Treat any unsolicited recovery offer as a second fraud.

Privacy

What you paste into the check is used to produce your report and is stored for 30 days so you can return to it, then deleted. Report links are unguessable and are not indexed by search engines. This site loads no third-party scripts, fonts, images or analytics — nobody else is told that you visited, which matters when the thing you are researching is a fraud.

Please do not paste your recovery phrase, private key, passwords, or government ID numbers. We never need them, and no legitimate service ever will.

No warranty, and limits of liability

This service is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of, or reliance on, this site or anything it produces. You remain responsible for your own decisions about your own money.

Reporting obligations

Nothing here is a substitute for reporting to law enforcement. Some findings — a sanctions listing, for instance — may carry legal consequences for transacting, independently of any fraud. If a report flags a sanctions match, speak to a lawyer before doing anything further involving that address.