Online Fraud & Scam Recovery
Tracing where your money went, identifying who holds it, and using civil and regulatory routes to try to get it back.
This is probably you if
- You transferred funds to someone you met online and contact has stopped.
- A purchase, invoice, or investment turned out to be fraudulent.
- Your bank has declined a fraud claim and you want the decision reviewed.
- You have wallet addresses, transaction IDs, or account details but no idea what to do with them.
Free assessment
Twenty minutes with a lawyer. No obligation, and no charge if we conclude there is nothing worth pursuing.
Start hereWhat the work involves
01
Evidence capture, done properly
We preserve the chat logs, transfers, screenshots, and headers in a form that holds up later. Most recovery attempts fail because the evidence was collected casually before anyone thought about litigation.
02
Following the money
We reconstruct the payment chain across banks, payment processors, and — where relevant — blockchain transactions, to identify the institutions and jurisdictions actually holding or routing the funds.
03
Freezing and disclosure applications
Where the facts and jurisdiction support it, we pursue court orders to freeze accounts and compel intermediaries to disclose who is behind them.
04
Bank, processor, and regulator complaints
We prepare and escalate chargeback, reimbursement, and complaint submissions, including to financial ombudsman schemes and regulators where a firm failed its own obligations.
05
Reporting and coordination
We prepare law enforcement reports that investigators can actually act on, and coordinate with them where a criminal case is running alongside your civil claim.
Being straight with you
Recovery is genuinely difficult and often partial. Speed matters more than anything else — funds move within days. We will tell you at the assessment stage if we think the realistic outcome does not justify the cost, and we would rather lose the instruction than take a fee for a case going nowhere.
Related practice areas
Investment & Crypto Fraud
Fake trading platforms, long-con relationship investment schemes, rug pulls, and the bogus recovery services that target victims a second time.
Business Email Compromise & Payment Diversion
When an invoice was intercepted and a payment went to the wrong account — for the company that paid, or the one that never got paid.
Data Breach Response
Legally-led incident response: containment advice, regulator notification, and defending what follows.
Time is the variable you control.
In fraud matters funds move within days, and in breach matters notification clocks start the moment you become aware. Running a trace takes about two minutes and costs nothing.