Trust
What we do not do: how to check it yourself
We do not promise recovery. We do not request an upfront fee for a guaranteed result. We do not claim contacts inside exchanges, banks, or law enforcement. We do not offer to freeze a transaction. What we do is review the file, the counterparty, and the applicable procedure before anything is filed. That review is the product, not a preview of a result.
Markers
Regulators describe the same pattern across jurisdictions. The FBI has issued repeated public warnings about firms posing as law offices to contact people who already lost money once (F053). The FCA maintains a standing warning page on so-called recovery room scams (F054). NASAA published a separate advisory on crypto recovery room schemes aimed at investors in the US and Canada (F055). The FSMA in Belgium named seven companies operating this way and flagged the risk of a second loss stacked on the first (F056).
- Contact arrives first, before you went looking for help.
- A fee is requested, tied to a stated or implied guarantee of recovery.
- The firm claims direct contact inside an exchange, a bank, or a police unit.
- Pressure to decide within hours, often citing a closing window.
- A name close to a real law firm or regulator, sometimes with a copied logo.
How to check any firm
Before paying anyone, confirm these points independently:
- The person signing correspondence is listed on a bar or law society register under that exact name.
- The firm has a verifiable office address, not only a messaging app handle or a generic email domain.
- The engagement letter states the fee structure in writing before any payment is made, not after.
- No document promises a result. A lawful engagement describes a process, not an outcome.
- The firm's name does not appear on a regulator warning list, including the regulator warning pages we track.
None of this requires a lawyer to check. It requires the firm's own paperwork and a few minutes.
Check us by the same criteria
Apply the same list to us. Ask for the engagement letter before paying anything. Ask what the fee covers and what it does not. Ask whether any outcome is promised in writing; it will not be. If a paid first review is what you are looking for, that is described separately on the services page, outside this cluster of trust material.
The regulator pages cited above are public and update independently of us (F053, F054, F055, F056). Checking a firm's name against them costs nothing and takes minutes.