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What to Do After an Online Scam

These guides help you preserve evidence, but institutions don't review 'tips' — they review structured documentation.

Act quickly: stop payments, preserve evidence, and secure your accounts.

Banks, card issuers and fraud teams assess disputes based on documented evidence and timelines. Scattered screenshots and verbal summaries rarely convey what happened clearly enough for review. Our reports structure raw evidence into proof-mapped timelines that reviewers can validate quickly. If you've already started collecting evidence, don't stop there — we'll package it into a report that strengthens your case.

Step by step

1

Stop the bleeding

  • Stop all payments immediately
  • Do not send additional transfers or fees
  • Do not install remote access software
  • Take screenshots before closing anything
2

Preserve evidence

  • Capture balances, deposits, withdrawals, errors
  • Save chats and emails with timestamps
  • Record exact URLs and usernames
  • Export chat logs where possible
3

Write a simple timeline

  • First contact date and platform URLs
  • Each payment with date, amount, method
  • Each withdrawal attempt plus response
  • Keep it factual, not narrative
4

Secure your accounts

  • Change passwords for email and financial accounts
  • Enable two-factor authentication
  • Check for suspicious email forwarding rules
  • Record what documents you shared and when

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What our clients say

Real stories from people we've helped reclaim what's theirs.

Mark T.
February 2026
I'd been going back and forth with support teams for months. Their structured report answered most questions in advance. It saved me time, energy and a lot of stress.
Isabella N.
August 2025
I contacted them at a really low point. They turned my chaos of messages into a clean, evidence-based case. That report helped me feel less powerless and more in control again.
Rachel D.
September 2023
English legal terms are not easy for me. They rewrote my explanations in simple but precise language. The report made me feel represented, not blamed.

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