Cryptocurrency Fraud Cases

Cryptocurrency presents unique challenges. On the one hand, it provides opportunities to completely digitize payment, transactions, and trading. However, with these opportunities, there are new dangers. Not only is there a proliferation of bitcoin scams but cryptocurrency fraud cases can be particularly challenging to resolve.

How Cryptocurrency Cases Are Different from Chargebacks and Wire Recalls?

People who think fund recovery is easy may have had a positive experience with a chargeback after they have reported a credit card stolen or missing.

This is one of the easiest types of fund recovery, and the most common. Those who have noticed unauthorized charges on their credit card after they have reported it missing can prove that they did not make the charges. Therefore, the issuing bank can feel confident that the customer deserves their money back.

In addition, there is a lot of transparency with credit card charges and clearly defined processes for protecting consumers and allowing chargebacks in cases of fraud, unauthorized charges, and erroneous charges. Customer disputes in chargebacks can be more complicated, but at least there is complete visibility into the identity of the people involved in the dispute.

Therefore, cryptocurrency fraud cases can be the most complex type of fund recovery since, unlike chargebacks and wire recalls, those behind the transactions are anonymous. This is why those who have lost money to merchant fraud, bitcoin scams, or forex scams need REFUNDNOVA professionals to interpret the transaction patterns on the blockchain and determine who is behind them. This is especially true in cryptocurrency money laundering cases because the money passes through many crypto wallets on the blockchain.

REFUNDNOVA gives clients the information they need to approach law enforcement. They know how to bolster your case so you can get prompt and effective assistance from the authorities and increase your chances of successful bitcoin recovery.

What Are the Most Common Types of Cryptocurrency Fraud Cases?

Cryptocurrency cases have risen dramatically since 2020, and continue to be a significant problem. The FBI, Interpol, and many other law enforcement agencies have raised the alarm about bitcoin scams, and financial service companies, as well as regulators, are on the alert on how best to deal with them. 

There are legitimate equivalents to all of these scams, but knowing warning signs should help you avoid the fraudulent versions of these services. An unregulated broker that offers extravagant returns on cryptocurrency should be avoided, particularly if these deals are offered on social media rather than through brokerage services on a secure website. The majority of ICOs are crypto scams and investors should work only with a regulated ICO platform. 

Crypto wallets should be purchased only from a reliable and verified service and consumers should never give their crypto codes or keys to anyone. However, even after these precautions have been taken, consumers can still lose money in a false bitcoin scam trading deal or through an illegitimate cryptocurrency service. 

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