Contact a Personal / Private Investigator

If your loss is large enough to consider hiring a professional, then here are the steps that you can take.

Hiring a private investigaor firm will not guarantee that your financial loss will be recovered. However it can bring you closer to identifying where the money trail has gone, and with some luck you might eventually find out where the money trail ends.

There are only a handful of groups that can assist with your investigation. Here’s a starting point for you:

• IFW World – located in various countries, they have a reputation of finding what is lostor stolen and being able to return it
• World Association of Detectives – use the form “find an investigator” to locate someone in your country who may be able to help
• SECMON1 – Au Australian based private investigative firm who specialise in bitcoin fraud financial recovery

The level of their success will depend on a number of factors, like:

• how well your information has been prepared
• how well the fraudsters have hidden their tracks
• the size of your loss
• the method of financial transfer you used
• a range of other factors that aren’t known about yet, for your case!

It may take some time to locate the correct investigative group that can help, but if you have invested (or lost!) a significant sum of money then this would be one of your last options that could help in the recovery of it.