Insights — recent recovery stories
Real cases from the Brooklyn desk: how each scam unfolded, and what we were able to trace back.
The ‘Task Job’ That Demanded Deposits: How We Recovered $21,500 from Aekreatif
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Read the file →When ‘ACEMarkets’ Cloned a Real Brokerage: Recovering a $156,000 Wire
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Read the file →Forty-Eight Hours That Saved $39,000 from Advantrade
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Read the file →From a Dating App to Aden Markets: Tracing a $94,500 Pig-Butchering Scam
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Read the file →Reading the Signal: Five Patterns Behind the Crypto Scams We Trace
Most crypto fraud doesn't announce itself. After hundreds of cases, five signals keep repeating — here's how to read them, with the full case files behind each.
Read the file →A Managed-Account Promise, a $112,000 Loss, and the Trace That Brought Most of It Home
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Read the file →How We Recovered $58,000 After ‘Abyss World Asset’ Froze a Retiree’s Withdrawals
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FIELD NOTES
Notes from the desk.
Working notes from the Cryptosenti research desk: trends, methodology essays, anonymized case retros, and the occasional Brooklyn dispatch.
Cryptosenti Watchlist: Komansky
When we trace the signals around Komansky, the noise resolves into a familiar pattern of deposit-and-stall fraud. We are documenting it here so people can recognise it before they …
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Capital Diamond
When we trace the signals around Capital Diamond, the noise resolves into a familiar pattern of deposit-and-stall fraud. We are documenting it here so people can recognise it befor…
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: VBM CAPITAL PARTNERS (Clone of FCA Authorised firm)
VBM CAPITAL PARTNERS (Clone of FCA Authorised firm) surfaced on our watchlist through a mix of investor reports and regulator signals. On the evidence we hold, it behaves like a sc…
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Insurance Link Sp. z o.o.
A review of Insurance Link Sp. z o.o. places it squarely in scam-broker territory. The tells are the ones we see again and again in crypto-investment fraud. SIGNAL SHEET Operator: …
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Schwarzoliverthomas
Schwarzoliverthomas surfaced on our watchlist through a mix of investor reports and regulator signals. On the evidence we hold, it behaves like a scam platform engineered to take d…
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Dfir Kapital
Dfir Kapital surfaced on our watchlist through a mix of investor reports and regulator signals. On the evidence we hold, it behaves like a scam platform engineered to take deposits…
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: TR Binary Options, which is owned and operated by Melnic Group Ltd.
TR Binary Options, which is owned and operated by Melnic Group Ltd. reached our desk through victim intake and open warning lists. Read the signals together and it reads as a fake …
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Asian Futures Trading Group
Asian Futures Trading Group surfaced on our watchlist through a mix of investor reports and regulator signals. On the evidence we hold, it behaves like a scam platform engineered t…
Read the file →Cryptosenti Watchlist: Goldberg and Schwarz
Goldberg and Schwarz surfaced on our watchlist through a mix of investor reports and regulator signals. On the evidence we hold, it behaves like a scam platform engineered to take …
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