I am a victim of pig butchering, who investigates my case?

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

Paucitas is an independent expert firm in the Netherlands that investigates investment fraud and crypto fraud and establishes legitimate crypto assets.

What Paucitas does

In pig butchering the contact often runs for months and several payments leave your account, each one to a new address. We bundle those addresses, look at how they relate to one another on the chain, and establish whether they belong to the same operation or to separate ones.

Alongside that we set out the course of the contact: when trust was built, when the first deposit was asked for, and at which point a withdrawal was suddenly blocked. That sequence is what makes a series of transfers legible as one pattern.

Someone who is a victim of pig butchering has usually paid several times over several months, each time to a different address. Bundling those addresses is the first real step, because it turns a list of separate losses into one operation with a shape. Where the addresses are demonstrably connected on the chain, the file becomes much easier for a bank or a court to follow.

What you supply

You supply the addresses you transferred to with the matching dates and amounts, your own transaction statements, and the chat history as far as you still have it. Screenshots of the platform dashboard are valuable, because they show what you were shown.

Bank statements of the deposits you made to an exchange belong in the set as well. They tie the on-chain payments to you personally, which is the link a bank or a court needs before it will treat the rest of the file as yours. Where an amount was paid in cash or through a third party, say so at the start.

What you receive

You receive a report with the timeline, the bundled addresses, the endpoints of the funds and a description of the method. For a file with up to roughly twenty payments the first picture is usually ready within three working days, and the full report within five working days after we receive your data.

The description of the method is written so that it can be read by someone who has never seen a case like this, which matters when the file goes to a bank, a Dutch police officer or a civil court.

For readers outside the Netherlands the point of the report is not sympathy but usability. It sets out the timeline, the addresses and the endpoints in a form that a Dutch bank will accept alongside a police registration, and that a civil court can read without a technical briefing. Nothing in it depends on trusting our word.

How to get started

You describe in a few lines how the contact ran and which amounts were transferred. There is no need to have everything in order first. Write through the contact page and we will tell you what an investigation in your situation can and cannot establish.

You do not need the chat history to be complete. Many people delete the app in the first days out of embarrassment, and the investigation still works from the payments alone. Write a few lines through the contact page and we will tell you what your data can carry.

Whether an institution takes the case further, that institution decides itself.