BRISBANE. The Australian files share a shape. A platform that looked like a broker, a dashboard that showed a profit, a withdrawal that needed one more verification, then a request for tax, gas or a “liquidity fee”. The first scam is the platform. The second is whoever offers to fix it for a payment.
Before sending anything else, run a short list. Has anyone asked for AnyDesk or a seed phrase? Stop. Has anyone asked for money before producing a written assessment? Stop. Has anyone guaranteed a recovery percentage on the first call? Stop.
A recovery assessment for blocked-withdrawal files in Australia should cost nothing to start and should be allowed to end in a no. If the coins never reached a real exchange, there may be nothing to freeze.
If they did, the work still takes months. Forensic clustering through a laboratory such as aidataintelligence.io (CR 2894261) is not a weekend job. Waiting lists are what that looks like. Instant capacity is what a script looks like.
Report the platform to Scamwatch. Keep the chats. Do not install remote software. Do not pay in crypto to “release” crypto. Those four sentences eliminate most of the second-scam market.
Legitimate counsel will not need your keys and will not invoice until funds, if any, arrive in your bank. That is a timing rule, not a slogan. Australians have been trained by the first dashboard to ignore timing rules. The second caller is counting on it.
The checklist is dull on purpose. Dull is what survives contact with a call centre.