What happened?
Start with the description that most closely resembles your situation. If none of them fits exactly, that is normal — most matters sit across two or three, and the categories matter far less than the facts.
Investment & Trading Fraud
Money placed with a platform or promoter on the strength of representations that did not hold — about returns, about who held the funds, or about whether anyone was licensed to take them.
- Fake investment platforms
- Unlicensed schemes
- Misrepresented returns
- Unauthorized trading
- Broker fraud
Forex & CFD Fraud
Leveraged accounts where the balance on the screen was never a real position, prices moved only one way, or withdrawals were obstructed once the balance grew.
- Unauthorized brokers
- Clone firms
- Manipulated platforms
- Bonus lock-ins
- Withdrawal refusal
Cryptocurrency Fraud
Transfers to an exchange, wallet or platform controlled by the person who introduced it — with a transaction record that, unlike most fraud, still exists.
- Fake exchanges
- Wallet approval schemes
- Fake tokens and presales
- Pig-butchering schemes
- Impersonation
Ponzi & Pyramid Schemes
Returns funded by incoming deposits rather than investment activity. Sustainable only while new money keeps arriving, and legally complicated for everyone in the structure.
- Fixed monthly returns
- Recruitment commissions
- No independent custodian
- Receiverships and clawbacks
Romance Investment Fraud
A relationship built over weeks or months and then used to introduce an investment. The relationship was not incidental. It was the method.
- Long trust-building
- Introduced “opportunities”
- Escalating deposits
- Withdrawal obstruction
Recovery Scams
The second approach, after the first loss: a lawyer, investigator, regulator or specialist who can get the money back, for a fee paid in advance.
- Advance-fee demands
- Impersonated regulators
- Fake investigators
- Fraudulent asset unlocks
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