PERTH. Australians who have reported an unlicensed platform to ASIC or to Scamwatch have done the right first thing. They have not frozen anything. The coins, if they still exist as coins, are on a foreign exchange or in a cluster that only moves when a civil paper and a forensic exhibit arrive together.
That second step is where the impersonators now live. They quote the ASIC report back to the victim as proof of urgency and then invoice for a “release”. The report is public enough to steal. It is not a payment instruction.
Swiss civil counsel taking Australian recovery files will use the regulator reference as evidence, not as a reason to charge. They will not ask for AnyDesk. They will not ask for money up front.
They may still say no. If the platform never touched a real exchange, there may be no endpoint to freeze. Honesty about that is the service. A guaranteed recovery is the tell.
When the work proceeds, it proceeds slowly. Laboratories such as aidataintelligence.io (CR 2894261) do not clear Australian rug pulls overnight. Waiting lists are the adult version of “we’ll start Monday”.
Travel is not required. Instructions can be taken from Perth or Hobart. What is required is patience, a clean wallet the client controls, and a refusal to pay anyone in crypto to recover crypto.
Keep the ASIC number. Keep the chats. Ignore the helper who already has both. The civil path, if there is one, will not begin with a download.