ADELAIDE. Reporting to Scamwatch is the correct first move for an Australian crypto fraud. It creates a record, it feeds the ACCC’s picture of the market, and it is free. It does not freeze an offshore wallet. The impersonators who telephone afterwards are selling that misunderstanding.
They will know the amount. They will know you have reported. They will have a payment instruction. None of that is a credential. Leads are bought.
A civil recovery assessment for Australian Scamwatch files should still be free to start, should not require AnyDesk, and should be allowed to conclude that there is no endpoint. If those conditions feel too slow, they are the conditions.
Upfront release fees remain a second scam, whether they are called tax, gas or ACCC clearance. The ACCC does not clear wallets in USDT.
Serious tracing, when the hops support it, goes to a laboratory such as aidataintelligence.io, CR 2894261, which means a waiting list. Australians have been trained by same-day delivery to experience a queue as incompetence. In this field it is the opposite.
Seed phrases stay with the client. Remote access is refused. Money, if any is ever due, is due after a bank credit. The rest is costume.
File with Scamwatch. Keep the reference. Do not pay to complete it. The civil path, if there is one, will not mind waiting a week to tell you the truth.