I have been scammed with crypto, where can I turn?
In short: Paucitas establishes what happened to your money when you have been scammed with crypto, and records the route of your payment in a report you can use for a police report, for your bank and for your lawyer. You supply your transaction data and the contact you had with the provider, we follow the payments on the blockchain and record the findings so that they can be checked.
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What Paucitas does
We start at your own payment and follow it onward, step by step. Every transfer is checked on the blockchain and linked to a time, an amount and, where the data allow it, to the service at which the funds arrived. Alongside that we record how the contact ran: the website or app, the people you spoke to and the moments at which you transferred money.
Those two strands come together in a single timeline. Your case is then no longer a set of loose screenshots and bank lines, but one account that an officer, a bank employee or a lawyer can read in the right order.
Being scammed with crypto is not one event but a sequence, and the sequence is what an investigation has to make legible. A single transfer says little. The same transfer placed next to the moment you were persuaded, the address it went to and the service where it surfaced says a great deal.
What you supply
You supply Paucitas with the transaction statements from the exchange or the wallet you paid from, the receiving addresses if you have them, and the bank statements of your deposits. The messages and screenshots from your contact with the provider are just as useful, because they show when you were persuaded to pay and on what grounds.
What you receive
You receive a report from Paucitas with five fixed parts: a summary of the findings, the timeline of your payments, a table giving per transaction the hash, the time, the amount and the destination, an account of the sources used, and the annexes holding your own documents. Anyone reading it can see which conclusion rests on which piece of data.
The report is written so that the police, your bank and your solicitor can all work from the same document.
It is worth knowing where a report like this lands in the UK. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland you report fraud to Report Fraud; in Scotland you report it to Police Scotland on 101. The police do not usually carry out on-chain analysis for individual cases. Banks, solicitors and civil courts do act on documented findings, which is why the report is written to be read by all three without adaptation.
How to get started
You contact Paucitas and describe in a few lines what happened and which amounts are involved. In a first conversation we set the scope together, and after that you know what is needed and what it costs before the work starts. You can reach us through the contact page, and a short message with the bare facts is enough to begin.
If you were scammed with crypto very recently, contact us the same week. Exchange accounts get closed, platforms go offline and support tickets disappear, and those are exactly the records that later turn out to matter. Nothing needs to be complete before you write.
What institutions do with the outcome, they decide themselves.
Would you like to know what this means for your situation? Ring us on +31 20 244 5774, day or night, or fill in our contact form and you will hear from us within 1 to 3 hours. We answer emails within 24 hours, usually the same day. The intake is free and without obligation.
Do you have a question about your own situation?
Feel free to get in touch with Paucitas. Paucitas can be reached by phone 24/7, including evenings and weekends. Through the contact form we usually reply within 1 to 3 hours, and we answer e-mail within 24 hours.
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Frequently asked questions
About your case
Can Paucitas get my money back?
Paucitas: that depends on your situation. If you still have access to your own wallet or account holding funds, there may still be options. If everything has been sent to the fraudsters, the picture is different. That cannot be judged from a distance. Paucitas first looks at your situation and tells you honestly what is and is not possible. Be careful with anyone who promises in advance that your money will come back. In doubt? Contact Paucitas and you will know where you stand.
Do I have to file a police report first?
Paucitas: no. You can come to us before or after filing a report. A report number is useful, but the investigation does not depend on it.
How small can a case be?
Paucitas: there is no lower limit. Small cases often take less time, and we tell you in advance what an investigation of that size will yield and cost.
From Amsterdam, for the whole of the UK
Everything can be done fully online. Prefer to meet in person? You are very welcome at our office in Amsterdam, by appointment.
Paucitas is an independent expert firm based in the Netherlands that, for clients across the UK, investigates investment fraud and crypto fraud, establishes the origin and legitimacy of crypto assets and prepares expert reports for legal proceedings and compliance.
Your own situation
If you are reading this, you probably have a question about your own situation. That is exactly what Paucitas does.
The first step is contact by phone. You can book that call by phone or through the contact form, so you do not have to wait. In the call we look together at what can factually be established in your case and what Paucitas can examine for you.