How many addresses can Paucitas follow?

There is no fixed limit. The number of addresses determines the time needed, and we state that in advance so the scope is clear.

What if the balance moved across several networks?

Cross chain steps are followed where the data allow it, and the report says explicitly at which point a crossing could not be established with certainty.

Does the report also say what could not be established?

Yes. Every line that ends at a non publishing service is recorded as such, because a gap is not a finding.

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How does an investigation into boiler room fraud with crypto payments work?

By R.T. (Tyler) Dijst, blockchain investigator at Paucitas

Paucitas takes a structured approach to investigating boiler room fraud with crypto payments, following each payment separately on the blockchain and bringing the outcomes together into one chain. You supply your payment addresses and deposit dates, we establish the route and the endpoints and record for each step what it rests on.

What Paucitas does

The investigation runs in four fixed steps. We verify each payment you made, follow the receiving address onward, establish where the balance was last visible, and then place all the payments side by side to see whether they converge.

Convergence is the finding that matters. Separate transfers that end up at the same cluster of addresses point to one operation rather than to a series of unrelated sellers.

Investigating boiler room fraud is a counting exercise before it is anything else. Each payment is verified, each receiving address is followed, each endpoint is named, and only then are the payments placed side by side. If they converge on the same cluster, that convergence is the finding; if they do not, the report says that instead of implying a connection that the data do not carry.

What you supply

You supply the addresses you paid to, the dates and amounts, your transaction statements from the exchange where you bought the crypto, and the call notes or messages you kept. Where an amount was paid in euros first, the bank statement of that step completes the chain.

Where you bought the crypto at an exchange before paying it out, add that exchange statement too. It closes the gap between the euros that left your bank and the coins that left your wallet, and without it a reviewer has to take one step on trust.

What you receive

You receive a report in which each payment occupies one line, giving the transaction hash, the time, the amount, the receiving address and the destination at which the balance was last visible. Above that sits a summary of at most one page, and below it the account of the sources and the method used.

What cannot be established is written down as well. A line that ends at a service which publishes nothing is recorded as such, so no reader mistakes a gap for a conclusion.

For readers outside the Netherlands the format is deliberately plain. One line per payment, a summary of at most one page, and an account of the sources at the end. Dutch banks and Dutch courts both work faster from a document of that shape than from a narrative, and it translates without loss for a foreign adviser.

What cannot be established is written down as well. A payment whose route ends at a service that publishes nothing is recorded as such, because presenting a gap as a finding is the fastest way to lose a reader who checks.

How to get started

You send the payment addresses and the amounts. We tell you how many of them can realistically be followed and what the report will cover. A short note through the contact page is enough, and we answer with a plain assessment rather than a sales pitch.

If several people paid the same seller, mention it. The addresses can be read together, and a shared cluster usually strengthens each individual file rather than diluting it.

What an institution or a court does with the findings remains for that institution itself.

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