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

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 Paucitas with 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 from Paucitas with the timeline, the bundled addresses, the endpoints of the funds and a description of the method. The turnaround time is from the same day to around two weeks, depending on the case.

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 police officer or a civil court.

For readers in the UK 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 bank can work with alongside a report to Report Fraud or Police Scotland, 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 to Paucitas 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.

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.