Recovery

A wire sent to a fraudster can sometimes be recalled, but only while the funds are still sitting in the receiving account. This is what to do in the first hours, and in what order.

A relationship scam is a long confidence operation that ends in a payment request. Reporting routes exist and are worth using, but the recovery picture is honest rather than comforting.

Investment and digital asset fraud is reported to several agencies at once, each with a different job. This explains who takes what, what happens after filing, and how to check a firm first.

People who have lost money to fraud are approached again by someone offering to recover it. The second approach is usually run by the same economy that produced the first.

Fraud reporting is split across agencies that each do a different job, and filing with one does not reach the others. This explains who takes what and in which order.

Whether money can come back depends far more on how it was paid than on how convincing the fraud was. This sets out the routes, the differences, and the honest odds.