What this service does
We investigate who is really behind the relationship and document what happened:
- forensic analysis of your messages, photos, voice notes, and payment trail
- identity tracing of the persona
- and a written report formatted for bank disputes, IC3 and FBI filings, and civil claims
If you have not sent money yet, we verify an online partner's real identity before you meet or pay.
An honest word on getting money back.Most online "recovery" promises are fiction — and the firms that guarantee it are often a second scam aimed at people already hurt once.
What forensics can actually do is document the loss and the persona well enough that banks, card networks, and law enforcement can act, and identify crypto off-ramps for law-enforcement seizure. See our guide to romance-scam recovery for what is and is not realistic.
Engagements are confidential and structured to begin within 48 hours of the consultation.
Some service tracks are offered at a fixed fee; complex investigations are billed hourlywith a clear scope, milestone updates, and a cap agreed up front.
Quinn (Founder and CEO) oversees every engagement and reviews every case before findings leave the practice; the practitioner team executes the technical work under her methodology.
- A direct line to Quinn, the founder — not a sales pipeline.
- Worked in-house by the examiner who scoped it.
- Explainable findings you can verify, with the methodology shown.
What this means for you
- Written scope before any work. You see a written scope — deliverables, timeline, and price — and approve it before we begin. You are never billed for work you did not authorize.
- We commit to findings, not outcomes. We tell you up front what the evidence can and cannot establish. Recovery, attribution, and prosecution are decided by banks, platforms, insurers, and courts — we produce the record they act on, and we put that distinction in writing.
- Every case is investigated, not just scanned. A credentialed examiner reviews every case before findings leave the practice. You get a documented investigation to court-admissible standards — not a single automated scan and a one-line answer.
- We will tell you if you do not need us. If a free or simpler step — a police report, an IC3 filing, a platform's own recovery flow — would resolve your situation, we point you there first.
How an engagement begins
- Confidential consultation. NDA-protected. 30-60 minutes. Direct conversation, no sales process.
- Scoped engagement. Written proposal with defined deliverables and pricing — fixed fee where it applies, hourly with milestone caps for open-ended investigations.
- Investigation and findings. Court-admissible standards. Written report you can act on.
If your case involved a crypto investment platform
Romance scams that escalate into crypto deposits on a fake trading platform are a distinct operational pattern called pig butchering (sha zhu pan).
The forensic methodology integrates the romance-scam communication forensics documented on this page with the wallet attribution, transaction-hash documentation, and IRS theft-loss evidence package required for the crypto-loss layer.
If you sent crypto, the pig butchering page is the more specific fit for your case. Standalone crypto scam recovery covers fake-exchange and investment-token losses without the romance pretext, and when the target is an older family member the elder fraud investigation track applies — romance-to-elder overlap is common in both directions.
Why this work matters
Quinn holds 9 active certifications across GIAC — methodology trusted by Fortune 50 enterprises,defense contractors, and the attorneys who refer to us. This is one track of our private digital forensics for individuals and families.
