Fraud, tracing, and a written path back.
A demonstration for people and businesses whose money or digital assets have been taken, frozen, or moved on. The work runs from the first assessment to a settlement or a documented return.
- Investment fraud
- Digital asset tracing
- Notices to banks and exchanges
- Settlement and return
What we handle
If the payment came from a scam, start with who can still be asked.
The route differs. The first step does not: a written view of whether a bank, an exchange, or a named person can still be written to. If the facts do not support that, the answer is no.
- Crypto scam recoveryFake trading apps and promised returns. We follow the coins to the exchange that can still be asked to act.
- Fake trading platform recoveryA site or app that showed a balance you could not withdraw. The review separates that screen from the payments that left your account.
- Investment scam recoveryA fake broker or trading scheme that took a deposit. The record starts with the payments, not the balance on the screen.
- Pig butchering scam recoveryA long online relationship that turns into a trading deposit. The page records the approach, then the wallet or payee it ended at.
- Impersonation scam recoverySomeone copied a bank, an adviser, a relative, or a brand, then sent payment instructions. The paper names that identity and the account that was paid.
- Frozen crypto fundsA blocked withdrawal or a compliance hold. We read the notice and say what can still be asked.
The record comes before a claim.
A lawsuit is not the first move. The useful work is the chronology, the payments, and the institution that can still be written to. The review is confidential and does not oblige you to continue.
Vendor exposure review
Here's Meridian Data Centers' critical vendor list. Have any appeared on ransomware leak sites in the last 90 days without disclosing it?
Findings so far
The facilities vendor, one of the three on the list, was listed on a ransomware leak site 41 days ago. The other two returned no matches.
The published data sample contains site access schedules and badge records that reference Meridian facilities. Leak sites sometimes repost old data, but these files are from the last two months.
A search of regulatory filings, news coverage, and the vendor's website found no breach notification.
This looks like an undisclosed breach that puts Meridian sites at risk. Next step: confirm with the vendor and review its staff's site access. Inference
7 entities · 6 links
Network vendor
Meridian Data Centers
Facilities vendor
Leak site listing
Ransomware group
Cooling vendor
Data sample
Intelligence
Understand what no singlesource reveals.
Bring corporate, cyber, identity, dark web, financial, sanctions, and other intelligence into one investigation.Speed
Search further. Move faster.
Pursue more lines of inquiry and follow connections further than a team can manage by hand.Tradecraft
Put specialist methodsto work.
Use expert-tested skills and repeatable analytic methods across teams, even when the expert who developed them is focused elsewhere.
What crimefighters have
achieved.
More victims supported. More crime networks disrupted.
How HSI Forfeited $15M from a Prominent Fentanyl Vendor
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) needed a way to trace crypto as part of their narcotics trafficking investigations.
Read the case study“It gave us phenomenal leads.”
US law enforcement agency
Solutions
Tackling the world’s most
urgent problems.
Close more cases without adding more people.
trmlabs resolves a wallet, username, or phone number across every source in one session, with the methodology documented at each step so your findings can be defended in court.
Missions
Fraud & scams
Follow a scam beyond the first report.
Child exploitation
Identify the people and networks behind the abuse.
How it works
Three stages. A paper at the end of each.
You can stop after any stage and keep what was written.
Assessment
We read the chronology, the contracts, and the movement of funds, then say whether a claim is viable, against whom, and at what likely cost.
You receive a written merits assessment and, where urgency requires it, preservation notices to the institutions involved.Build and notify
We map the transactions and pack the evidence, then send formal notices to the exchanges, banks, and processors that touched the funds.
You receive an evidence bundle fit for a court or a regulator, and a record of every notice served.Resolve
Where the papers support it, we negotiate. Where they do not, we prepare a regulator complaint or civil proceedings with local counsel.
You receive settlement terms or issued proceedings, and a documented path for any money that comes back.Articles
How to File an Exchange Complaint EffectivelyLearn how to file an exchange complaint with a clear evidence record, preservation request, escalation path, and realistic next steps after lost funds.Read more
Are Blockchain Traces Admissible in Court?Are blockchain traces admissible in court? Learn what makes transaction analysis reliable, authenticated, and useful for a fraud recovery claim in court.Read more
A Romance Scam Example and Evidence That MattersSee how a romance scam example becomes payment fraud, what evidence to preserve, which institutions to notify, and when a legal review may help in time.Read more
Request a review
Bring the facts. The first paper says if there is a case.
The useful first step is the chronology, the evidence, and which institutions can still be written to. The review is confidential and does not oblige you to continue. If the facts do not support a claim, the paper says no.
What to have ready
- Dates and amounts
- How the contact began
- Wallet addresses, bank references, or exchange account details
- Correspondence you still have
- Any deadline, freeze, or notice already in motion
Incomplete is fine. Do not wait until every document is in one place. Recall windows and freezing options narrow as funds move.
Prefer email? enquiries@trmlabs.example