Crypto fraud investigation · Ireland
Lost crypto to a scam?Find out where it went.
Hopcount traces blockchain transactions to help victims understand how cryptocurrency moved after a scam.
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Built for complex crypto fraud cases
Patterns
Does this look familiar?
Many crypto scams follow a similar pattern. If one of these is close to your experience, the transaction behind it can usually be examined.
A dashboard showed profits that could never be withdrawn.
Someone met online guided you into a trading opportunity.
A caller or advert claimed to represent a bank, broker or public figure.
A link led to a copy of a real service and captured your details.
An app or extension asked for a recovery phrase, then emptied the wallet.
A fee, tax or licence payment was demanded before any withdrawal.
Every submission is read by a specialist. If a case cannot usefully be traced, we say so at the review stage rather than after you have paid for anything.
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The pattern that costs most
You tried to withdraw. Then they asked for more money.
The sequence below is fictional, but the order rarely changes.
No fee, tax or licence payment has released blocked funds on a platform of this kind. The balance on the screen is a number the operator controls. The transfers you already made are the part that exists on a public blockchain — and that part can be examined.
Why a case is still possible
The website can disappear. The transaction trail may remain.
A platform can be taken offline in an afternoon. A confirmed transaction on a public chain does not vanish with it.
A confirmed transaction can contain:
- Transaction hashes — a permanent reference to each transfer
- Wallet addresses — where funds came from and went next
- Timestamps — when each movement was confirmed
- Transferred amounts — including splits and consolidation
- Subsequent movement — what happened after the funds left
Scope of work
What can an investigation show?
And, just as plainly, where the data runs out. Every report contains a section on the limits of what could be established.
Trace the transaction
Follow cryptocurrency movements from the originating transaction onward, hop by hop.
Map connected addresses
Identify relevant wallet addresses and the relationships between transactions.
Identify destinations
Assess whether funds reached identifiable services or exchanges, where the data technically allows it.
Prepare evidence
Organise the transaction information into a structured investigation report a third party can verify.
Where we work
For crypto fraud cases in Ireland
Case review for clients in Ireland, in English, with figures and amounts handled in euro.
An investigation produces blockchain evidence in a form that can be read without technical training. That matters when the same information has to be given to more than one place.
- Material you can bring to your bank when reporting the transfer
- A written trail to accompany a report to the authorities
- A formal request that can be addressed to a receiving exchange
- Documentation a legal adviser can work from
an identifiable service
Based on our last 10 completed investigations, to September 2026. Naming the service that received a transfer is what gives a bank, an exchange or an investigating officer somewhere to direct a formal request. It is not the same as recovering funds, and earlier cases do not predict the outcome of yours — the route the money took decides what is possible.
We don't promise outcomes. We establish what the chain can show, and say plainly where it stops.
A report records that it happened.
It does not establish where the funds went.
That second question is the one a bank, an exchange or an investigating officer will put to you — and the one a written trace answers: which addresses the transfer passed through, and where the trail reaches a service that holds customer records. Where funds sit today is not something anyone can promise to establish.
Hopcount is an independent private firm. We are not a law firm, not a fund recovery service, and we have no affiliation with, endorsement from, or partnership with any bank, exchange, regulator or police force.
Process
How it works
Five stages. You know the outcome of each one before the next begins.
Provide basic information about what happened.
Hopcount reviews the available transaction information.
Relevant transactions and wallet movements are analysed.
Findings are organised into a structured case report.
You receive the findings and possible next-step options based on the available evidence.
Questions
Asked most often
Can cryptocurrency transactions be traced?
What information should I provide?
What if the scam website has disappeared?
Can you guarantee that my funds will be recovered?
Do I need the transaction hash?
What happens after I submit my case?
Your transaction history may contain more information than you think.
Start with an initial review of your case.
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