Trail Audit · Casefile Library

Case Studies

Every recovery begins with a trail. These dossiers walk through how Cryptocule reconstructs the movement of stolen crypto — from first contact to the off-ramp — across the fraud patterns we see most. Each is built around a real operator documented in our own broker directory, and the outcomes are mixed on purpose: some funds come back, some don’t, and we’re honest about which is which.

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Cloud-Mining Contract

The Hashrate That Never Hashed

CloudMiningCity sold a “managed” Bitcoin-mining contract with a daily-yield dashboard — and a withdrawal wall of endless fees. We traced the cash-out to an exchange.

Recovered53%
WhatsApp Investment Club

The Mentor in the Group Chat

A WhatsApp “wealth circle” moved €68,500 onto ApexPrime Investment. Reporting in days kept the USDT on-platform — and made the recovery possible.

Recovered71%
Telegram Signal Group

Pumped and Dumped

A free Telegram signals channel funneled deposits onto GlobeTrend Invest in a pump-and-dump. The honest, partial result once funds reached a mixer.

Recovered38%
Fake-CFD Withdrawal Fee

The Withdrawal Fee That Never Ended

A cold call opened a high-leverage “CFD” account at CapitalGates. We combined a card chargeback with an on-chain trace to claw back the reachable funds.

Recovered61%
Clone of a Regulated Firm

A Borrowed Registration

RichPoint Capital cloned a real FCA-regulated firm’s registration. Bank reimbursement plus a Bitcoin trace, run in parallel, returned most of it.

Recovered87%
Fake Exchange

Frozen on Purpose

BetaCapitalX looked like a real exchange, with a live order book and a staking counter. The withdrawal froze behind a tax wall after the deposits were swept.

Recovered29%
Romance · Fake Staking

A Months-Long Setup

A months-long online relationship led to “family” ETH staking on Xip Capitals Group — a classic pig-butchering setup, traced branch by branch.

Recovered44%
Recovery Scam

Scammed Twice

After an earlier scam, RevolutionInvest promised to “recover” the losses for an upfront fee. Acting within days returned most of the second payment.

Recovered80%