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Recover Your Funds: A Guide for Scam Victims Based in the US

  • Writer: GA-SO
    GA-SO
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 min read


For scam victims based in the US, here is a guide on how to recover your funds. You will want to file a police report at your local police station as well as a complaint at the government agencies listed below:


  1. Your local policy agency

  2. Your State Attorney General

  3. Identity Theft: https://www.identitytheft.gov/

  4. FBI IC3: https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx

  5. SEC: https://www.sec.gov

  6. CFTC: https://www.cftc.gov

  7. FTC: https://www.ftc.gov

  8. FinCen: https://www.fincen.gov

  9. US Secret Service: https://www.secretservice.gov/contact/field-offices


Note: the agencies that you report to may depend on the nature of the scam. Always start with your local police station.



When filing a complaint with your financial institution, make sure to ask them to:

  • Close the account and open a new account with all new account numbers.

  • Report any digital wallets that you use (Apple Pay/Google Pay/Samsung Pay)

  • Report any other digital payment methods that you use (Crypo exchanges, Paypal, Zelle, etc)

  • Update your contact information.

  • Withdraw any cash that you need to survive.


Because the account representatives may not remember or even know to ask you these things!



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For victims of cryptocurrency scams, please fill out this information as accurately as you can so we can get you to the right group for support.

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We group victims who sent to the same crypto addresses or scam syndicate together, and will proceed to send you an email should you fall into the list of potential bulk case that we currently have leads on. We're a team of volunteers and we're actively investigating these reports.

 
 
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