How Blockchain Tracing Works: Can Stolen Cryptocurrency Really Be Tracked?
One of the most persistent misconceptions about cryptocurrency is that it is completely anonymous and therefore untraceable. This belief, while...
At CRE Global, every case we handle is treated with the highest level of confidentiality. The following anonymised case studies reflect the real scope and depth of our investigative work — demonstrating our ability to trace, document, and recover digital assets across a wide range of fraud typologies and jurisdictions throughout Europe.

A private investor in Germany was defrauded through a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform. CRE Global traced funds across 14 wallets on three separate blockchains and coordinated with European authorities to freeze and return the assets.

A group of investors lost funds when a DeFi project executed a rug pull. Our team mapped the developers' on-chain activity, identified cash-out points on centralised exchanges, and submitted a full evidentiary report to law enforcement across two jurisdictions.

A mid-size European company was deceived into transferring cryptocurrency to a fraudulent wallet address. Within 72 hours, CRE Global traced the funds, identified the receiving exchange, and coordinated an emergency asset freeze that enabled full recovery.

An individual was manipulated over several months into transferring cryptocurrency to a fraudster posing as a romantic partner. CRE Global conducted a full pig-butchering scam analysis, tracing the funds through a layered wallet network and producing a report used in a criminal complaint.

A technology company suffered a sophisticated phishing attack that resulted in the unauthorised transfer of funds from a corporate crypto wallet. CRE Global deployed blockchain intelligence tools to trace the stolen assets and worked with the receiving exchange to freeze and recover the majority of funds.

A retired couple in the Netherlands were convinced by a fraudulent broker to invest their savings in a fake cryptocurrency fund. CRE Global identified the wallet infrastructure used by the operation, linked it to a known fraud network, and supported a successful civil recovery claim.
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