Crypto stolen? Here is where to report it.
Report it to the police in your own country first, because that is the only report that opens a case, then to the exchange that received the funds, then to the public scam databases. Do the evidence work in the first hour, because chats, profiles and websites disappear fast. Every channel listed is an official body or a public database; none of them charge, and nobody here offers to get your money back.
The first hour
Three moves, in this order, before anything else.
- Disconnect the affected wallet from every site, revoke the token approvals you signed, and move what is left to a brand-new wallet with a new seed phrase.
- Screenshot the chat, profile, website and payment screen, and copy the transaction hashes, receiving addresses, token contract, exact domain, dates and times.
- Write a one-page chronological summary: what you were promised, what you sent, when, to which address, on which network, and how much in your own currency that day.
Where to file
In Spain: the Policía Nacional online complaint office, the Guardia Civil telematic complaint for fraudulent charges by electronic means, and free guidance from INCIBE on 017. Internationally: the FBI IC3 and the FTC in the United States, the national cybercrime channel listed by Europol in the EU, and Chainabuse for the on-chain indicators. Online complaints in Spain cannot be used when the author is known, when there were witnesses or when there was violence.
What never to do after a theft
The follow-up fraud is aimed at the same victim list.
- Never pay a recovery expert, blockchain lawyer or fund retrieval agent who contacts you after the theft.
- Never send a fee to unlock, release, verify or convert money supposedly still held on their platform.
- Never hand your seed phrase, private key or remote-access session to anyone offering help.
- Never accept a refund that requires you to receive and forward a payment: that makes you the money mule.