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Crypto Tax Scam Recovery
A 'tax', clearance or compliance fee stands between you and your balance — and paying it produces another one.
What this looks like
Once a fake platform has your deposits, the next stage is often a charge dressed up in official language: withholding tax, capital gains clearance, anti-money-laundering verification, a regulator's release fee. It may arrive with letterhead, a reference number and a deadline.
The tell is structural rather than cosmetic. No tax authority requires a payment in cryptocurrency to a private wallet in order to release a trading balance, and no genuine charge multiplies each time you settle it.
If it is still happening, stop paying now. Additional fees do not release a balance that was never there. Preserve the evidence instead — transaction IDs, wallet addresses, the platform URL, screenshots and the full chat history.
Signs that fit this pattern
- A fee that must be paid in crypto, to a wallet address, before any withdrawal
- Official-looking documents that cannot be verified on any government domain
- A second charge appearing immediately after the first is paid
- Short deadlines and warnings that the balance will be forfeited
- Instructions to keep the arrangement confidential
How we work the case
Fee-payment trace
Each fee payment is traced separately — these often go to different addresses from the original deposits, which can widen the picture.
Document review
The demand letters, reference numbers and named 'authorities' are checked against real registries so the fabrication is on record.
Loss reconstruction
Deposits and fee payments are consolidated into a single, dated schedule of what was taken and when.
Reporting pack
You receive a file suitable for the relevant tax authority, your bank, and any fraud reporting body in your jurisdiction.
What we will not tell you
That your funds are already located, that recovery is certain, or that a payment now will speed it up. If the trace shows a dead end, you will hear that — it is more useful than a hopeful answer, and it protects you from the follow-up scams that target people in exactly this position.
Anyone who guarantees recovery before examining your transactions is selling something other than an investigation.
Common Questions
Sometimes. It depends on where the funds went, how quickly they were moved, and whether they reached anywhere identifiable such as a centralised exchange or a regulated payment service. Tracing is what tells you which of those apply. Anyone answering this with a flat yes before looking at your transactions is not being straight with you.
Stop sending money, including anything described as a fee, tax or verification charge. Then preserve evidence: transaction hashes, wallet addresses, the platform URL, screenshots of your account and balance, and the full chat history. Export rather than screenshot where you can, because accounts and groups are usually deleted once the scheme moves on.
We start from your transactions and follow them across the relevant chains, mapping each hop and noting every service the funds pass through that could respond to a request or a legal process. That is then combined with the platform details and your correspondence into a single structured report.
Most public-chain activity can be followed, because the ledger is open. It becomes harder when funds pass through mixers, privacy coins or long chains of bridges and swaps, but the trail up to that point is usually still informative -- and that is often exactly where the identifiable services sit.
Transaction IDs and wallet addresses first, then payment confirmations from your bank or exchange, screenshots of the platform and your balance, withdrawal requests and any refusals, and the messages exchanged with whoever approached you. More complete records make for a more useful review.
It varies with the number of transactions and how far the funds travelled. A straightforward trace can be turned around quickly, while cases involving dozens of hops, several chains or multiple platforms take considerably longer. We tell you early which sort of case yours looks like.
No, and you should treat any guarantee as a warning sign. What we commit to is an honest assessment of what the evidence shows and a clear explanation of the options it opens up.
Be sceptical of anyone who contacts you unprompted, claims to have already located your funds, guarantees recovery, or wants a large payment before reviewing anything. Victim lists get traded, so a follow-up approach is common. Legitimate firms explain their process, examine the evidence first, and set expectations you may not want to hear.
Yes. A report creates an official record, and records are what allow exchanges, investigators and regulators to connect separate complaints to the same operation. It also matters if any part of the trail is still moving somewhere traceable.
Start Your Free Case Review
Share a few details about your situation. We will look at what you have, tell you what is traceable, and set out the options that genuinely apply.