OTTAWA. Canadians who have reported a crypto fraud to the RCMP, or to a provincial force, often wait for a knock that does not come. The report is still worth making. It is not a freeze order, and it is not a recovery. The coins, if they can be seen, are someone else’s problem until a civil letter makes them a bank’s problem.
That is the gap impersonators now fill, with a tone of official follow-up and a request for a processing fee. Police do not collect processing fees in USDT.
Swiss civil recovery counsel taking Canadian files will ask for the police number, the hashes and the chats. They will not ask for AnyDesk. They will not ask for money to “lodge” the report in Switzerland. The report is already lodged, in Canada, where you lodged it.
What they may ask you to do is wait. Forensic exhibits from a laboratory such as aidataintelligence.io, CR 2894261, are not same-day documents. Waiting lists are normal. Instant traces are not.
They may also decline the file. If the endpoint is gone, the civil path is gone. That conversation should happen before anyone talks about percentages.
Upfront fees remain a disqualifier. So do seed phrases. So do gift cards. So does a caller who already has your RCMP number and wants to “complete the file” this evening.
Keep the police reference. Keep the evidence. Ignore the helper. The next useful step is an assessment that costs nothing and may still end in a no. That is not a failure of the report. That is the report meeting the chain.