How to Verify a Crypto Broker Before You Deposit
Five checks that take ten minutes and can save you everything. Do them before you fund any platform.
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Recovery guides & case files
How crypto scams work, how funds get traced, and what actually gets money back — from the Cryptohud team.
“They Found Where My Money Went” — Marcus’s Story
An honest one: a fake exchange, a long delay, and a partial recovery. In his own words.
A “bonus” that quietly locked CAD 41,000 in place
A deposit “bonus” with impossible withdrawal conditions buried in the terms.
Pig-Butchering Scams: How the Long Con Works — and How to Get Out
The most damaging crypto scams don’t start with money. They start with trust, built patiently over weeks.
A Telegram Signal Group, $31,500, and What We Recovered
A “free” signal group quietly turned its own members into the exit liquidity. Here’s how the recovery went.
A $48,000 CFD account that asked for one more payment to release the funds
A withdrawal “fee” that only grew — traced and largely recovered.
A months-long relationship, an “investment app”, and $164,000
Months of trust engineered before a single dollar ever moved.
A “forex club” that paid referrals until the day it didn’t
A referral “club” that paid out until new members stopped arriving.
£73,200 frozen behind an “account verification” that never ended
A cloned licence badge and an account-verification loop with no end.
A boiler-room desk, four cards, and £54,300 in binary options
A boiler-room desk and multi-card funding designed to slow the disputes.
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