Investment Fraud & Financial Scam Litigation

When an investment was built on deception, you deserve experienced legal counsel.

Our attorneys investigate the circumstances surrounding suspected fraud and help clients understand their legal options.

Request a confidential case review Speak with our legal team

Free and confidential, with no obligation. Nothing you send is privileged until the firm takes your case.

Licensed Attorney New York State Bar · admitted 2014

Reg. No. 5220058 Verifiable on the public register

Investment Fraud Litigation Misrepresented and unlicensed investments

Financial Investigations Entities, transactions, counterparties

Cryptocurrency Matters Exchange, wallet and token fraud

Free Consultation Private, and without obligation

You are not the first person to read this page

You may have come here because…

You deposited money with a broker who stopped responding.
Your trading account showed profits, but withdrawals suddenly became impossible.
You were told that additional taxes, fees or verification payments were required before you could withdraw your funds.
You discovered that the company or broker may not have been properly licensed.
You were contacted by someone promising to recover money you had previously lost.
You are not sure whether what happened to you constitutes fraud at all.

You don’t need to figure this out alone.

Investment fraud is designed by people who do this professionally. It is built to be convincing, and it is built so that the person losing money does not realize what is happening until the money has moved. Not understanding it sooner is not a failure of judgment. It is the intended result.

The first step is not litigation. It is understanding the facts: what was represented to you, who actually held your money, what the documents and messages say, and whether the entity involved was licensed to do what it was doing. Once that is established, it becomes possible to say what legal options may exist — and, just as importantly, which ones do not.

How a matter is assessed

What happened?

Fraud arrives in a small number of recognizable shapes

Investment & Trading Fraud

Money placed on representations that did not hold.

Forex & CFD Fraud

A balance on a screen that was never a real position.

Cryptocurrency Fraud

Transfers to a platform controlled by whoever introduced it.

Ponzi & Pyramid Schemes

Returns paid out of other people’s deposits.

Romance Investment Fraud

The relationship was not incidental. It was the method.

Recovery Scams

The second approach, offering to get the first loss back.

How these schemes work

Nine steps, in almost every case

The full sequence

01 Initial contact
02 Trust-building
03 A small first deposit
04 Apparent profits
05 Pressure to add more
06 Withdrawal blocked
07 Fees demanded
08 The platform disappears
09 The recovery approach

Warning signs

Three that are close to decisive

A payment demanded before a withdrawal

No legitimate institution asks you to send money to receive your own.

A website the register does not list

Same license number, different domain. That is a clone.

They contacted you

Especially if they already know what you lost.

The full checklist Check a firm

The process

What actually happens, in order

In detail

Confidential Intake

What was represented, and what you sent.

Evidence Preservation

Before the records stop existing.

Preliminary Assessment

Including what cuts against a claim.

Investigation

Entities, transactions, counterparties.

Legal Strategy

What is available, and what it would take.

Representation

Where the firm accepts the matter.

The attorney

Jorge Altamirano

Attorney at Law · New York, NY

Jorge Altamirano represents investors in complex disputes involving securities arbitration, FINRA matters, broker misconduct and investment fraud — where losses arise from misrepresentation, unsuitable investments, unauthorized activity, fraudulent schemes or misconduct within the financial services industry.

BarNew York State Bar

Registration5220058

Admitted2014

StatusActive

Full profile The firm

A law firm is not a recovery company.

An attorney is on a public register, owes enforceable duties, and cannot guarantee an outcome. A recovery company owes you a contract, if that.

Why that matters here

Fraud alerts & legal analysis

From the firm

All articles

Crypto Fraud

Tell us what happened.

Confidential, free, and no obligation. If there is nothing worth pursuing, you will be told that plainly.

800-897-5422

Request a confidential case review Email the firm

Confidential. No obligation. Contacting the firm does not create an attorney‑client relationship.