Some of the most painful cases we see are victims targeted twice. After an earlier trading loss, a Phoenix client was contacted by an operation calling itself a recovery agency (Falconglob), which demanded an upfront “court bond” paid in gift cards and crypto.
Speed was everything
Because the client reached us within days, the money was still close to its origin. We froze and charged back the gift-card loads before the codes were redeemed and traced the crypto fee to a single exchange deposit. Most of it came back.
A warning worth repeating: a genuine recovery firm never cold-calls victims, never demands large upfront fees, and never asks for gift cards or crypto “bonds.” If someone contacts you out of the blue promising guaranteed recovery for a fee, it is a second scam. For more documented outcomes, see our case studies.