Scammed with crypto: what now?

Your wallet was drained

Someone got your recovery phrase (seed phrase) or a signature. Create a new wallet with new words, on a device you trust, and move everything that is left there. Remove site connections in your wallet app. Never use the old words again.

Your coin cannot be sold or is worth almost nothing

That can be a rug pull, a coin that is frozen, or a coin that could only be bought. What may have happened is on rug pull and liquidity gone and why can’t I sell my memecoin? Paste the address into Veydor to see how the coin stands now.

You filled something in at fake support or a copied site

Do the same as for a drained wallet, even if nothing is gone yet: new wallet, new words, connections removed. A link or message you do not trust yet can be checked first: see check a link and check a message.

You are called or emailed after a data leak

After a leak at an exchange, bank or web shop, scammers sometimes know your name, address and order. A message that knows your name does not come from the company because of that. Do not call back a number from the message, do not click the link and do not install an app at their request. Look up the real address yourself. See also letter from Ledger or Trezor.

Someone offers to get your money back

This is the most common second scam. See someone offers to recover your stolen crypto.

Report and keep records

Report it to the police and to your country’s official fraud-reporting service; where that is differs per country. Keep the transaction IDs, the addresses and the messages; you need them for a report. If the money went to an exchange, report it there too, through the address you type yourself.

Everything Veydor does here is free. Veydor never asks for your recovery phrase, for payment or to connect your wallet. The Telegram bot @Veydor_check_bot has the same steps under /lost.