Chain Fraud Watch
SERVICES

Trace it, expose it, document it

Five practices. Three of them are the kind of case you bring us; the other two run through every case we take.

THEFT TRACING

Follow the money to wherever it actually stopped

Funds taken from a person or a protocol. We start at the theft transaction and work forward through swaps, bridges, mixers, peel chains and consolidation. The output is a path with a hash for every hop, not a picture of a graph.

Hop-by-hop path from theft address to the current holding or cash-out point
Chain-hopping reconciled on both sides of each bridge or swap
Mixer and privacy-tool interactions analysed for amount and timing patterns rather than treated as dead ends
Every movement recorded with its transaction hash so a third party can re-run the trace
Fund path
LIVE
Mixer deposit, 41 BTC
TIMING AND AMOUNTS RECOVERED ON EXIT
TAINT
Bridge crossing to Ethereum
BOTH SIDES MATCHED
HOP
Centralised exchange deposit
CUSTODIAL — ACCOUNT RECORDS EXIST
END
Operation map
LIVE
Front-end domain and deposit wallet
SAME OPERATOR AS THREE EARLIER SITES
LINKED
Victim deposits, 412 addresses
CONSOLIDATED TO A SINGLE WALLET
SIZED
Paid promotion accounts
PAID FROM THE OPERATION'S OWN CLUSTER
TIED
FRAUD EXPOSURE

Establish what the operation actually is

Scam operations look legitimate from the outside and near-identical to each other underneath. We map the wallets behind the front end, size the victim pool, trace who was paid to promote it, and set out how the thing works.

Wallet structure behind the platform, and its links to earlier operations that reused it
Victim deposits aggregated to size the operation rather than guess at it
Paid promotion, coordinated accounts and manufactured volume traced to who funded them
Operators identified where the evidence supports it, and named only where charges are public
MONEY LAUNDERING ANALYSIS

How the proceeds get washed, stage by stage

Laundering is a process with a signature: mixers, bridge loops, peel chains, swap cycles, OTC desks and P2P cash-out. We document the method and not only the destination, because the method is what makes the next case recognisable.

The laundering method broken into stages, each one evidenced
Illicit exposure measured for a wallet, a protocol or a platform's deposits
Cash-out points identified where value leaves the chain for fiat
Written up as a typology your compliance team can screen against later
Laundering path
LIVE
Mixer deposit
AMOUNT AND TIMING SIGNATURE RECOVERED
STAGE 1
Bridge and swap loop, six crossings
VALUE RECONCILED ON BOTH SIDES
STAGE 2
P2P cash-out account
SAME ACCOUNT SEEN ACROSS FOUR CASES
STAGE 3
Identity links
LIVE
Real name exposed on recorded call
CORROBORATED BY TWO SEPARATE CAPTURES
STRONG
Same handle and avatar across platforms
CONSISTENT BUT REUSABLE BY OTHERS
MEDIUM
Shared-device claim from third party
UNVERIFIABLE — EXCLUDED FROM REPORT
DROPPED
ATTRIBUTION & OSINT

Who is behind the addresses

Chain data tells you where value went, never who moved it. Attribution comes from the mistakes people make around the edges: reused deposit addresses, recycled handles, names said out loud on calls, activity that lines up too neatly to be coincidence.

Address clustering before any conclusion about who controls what
Off-chain corroboration from platform accounts, handles, captures and public filings
Each finding carries an explicit confidence level and the evidence behind it
Weak links get discarded in writing rather than quietly rounded up
EXPERT REPORTS

Written so it survives being checked

A trace is only worth what it can support later: a police report, a civil claim, an exchange escalation, an insurance file. We write for the person who will try to poke holes in it.

Plain narrative of the incident with sources for every factual claim
Complete address inventory in a format others can import and verify
Expert declarations for civil proceedings where the case needs one
Direct handover calls with your counsel, insurer or investigating officer
Report package
LIVE
Trace narrative with hashes
EVERY CLAIM SOURCED
INCLUDED
Address inventory, CSV
THEFT, INTERMEDIATE, CLUSTER, DEPOSIT
INCLUDED
Expert declaration
SCOPED PER MATTER
ON REQUEST
WHAT WE WORK WITH

The surfaces a case actually touches

Tracing is one part. A case moves because the right people receive the right document.

Major chains and their bridges
Cross-chain swaps and privacy tools
Exchange and custodian records
Graph and clustering tooling
Open-source and platform research
Police and national reporting channels
Litigation counsel and insurers
Ongoing monitoring of dormant clusters
START HERE

Send us what you have

An address, a platform, a name, or just what happened. We will tell you what can be established, how far, and whether paying us is worth it.