Russia
Crypto recovery in Russia for victims of investment and phone scams
Russians have a saying for moments like this: «Доверяй, но проверяй», trust, but verify. After a loss, every offer of help has to survive verification before it earns trust.
RVK Recovery is a legal practice for cryptocurrency recovery. It reviews files from residents of Russia who lost digital assets to fraud, plus lost wallet access, genuine exchange lockouts, and estates that include cryptocurrency.
These schemes are built by professionals; being deceived by them is not a character flaw.
Three facts define the work:
- The practice never asks for seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, or remote access to your computer.
- The fee is 12.5%, due only after recovered funds reach your bank account.
- The review is confidential, in writing, and without obligation.
First steps after a loss in Russia
Preserve the evidence: chats, emails, wallet addresses, transaction hashes, platform screenshots, and the payment details you sent money to. Do not delete anything.
Report the crime. The duty desk (дежурная часть) of any police station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (МВД) accepts crime reports around the clock and issues a registration receipt. Electronic reports go through the official site мвд.рф and require a verified Gosuslugi account. The Bank of Russia publishes a list of companies showing signs of illegal activity at cbr.ru. These steps are free and do not conflict with a legal review.
Send no more money: no "withdrawal tax", no "insurance deposit", no "release fee". A genuine platform does not ask for these. Distrust anyone who contacts you first and offers recovery.
What the practice reviews
Per МВД reporting, the most common remote theft schemes in Russia are "safe account" phone calls, fake crypto investment platforms, and phishing links in messengers. The practice reviews exactly these files:
- fake investment platforms and broker fronts, including Telegram investment groups;
- impersonation calls in which the victim is walked into buying cryptocurrency and sending it to a "safe" address;
- romance schemes that end on a fake trading platform (pig butchering);
- SIM swap, account takeover, and unauthorised transfers;
- fake recovery services;
- lost access to wallets, documented disputes with genuine exchanges, and estate matters.
The local picture
The scripts are the same in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and smaller cities. The amounts differ; the playbook does not.
The Bank of Russia notes that most illegal projects operate without offices, through social networks, messengers, and phone calls, and that one scheme is often cloned under dozens of names. The practical consequence: the organisers behind a platform that looked unique may already be before a court, and a new file can sometimes join an existing action. Checking for such a match is free and requires no wallet credentials.
Fees, security, jurisdiction
Fees. The fee is 12.5% of the recovered sum, due only after the money reaches your bank account. No retainer, no hourly rate, no cryptocurrency payment to open a file, no charge for the review. If there is no recovery through the practice's efforts, nothing is owed.
Security. The practice never asks for seed phrases, private keys, passwords, two-factor codes, or remote desktop access (AnyDesk, TeamViewer, UltraViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop, screen sharing of any kind). It never asks you to move remaining coins as a verification step. Anyone who asks for these things in the practice's name is an impersonator.
Jurisdiction. The practice does not accept clients who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States, Germany, Italy, or France. Every other country can be considered. Each file is judged on the applicable law, where the counterparty is, the evidence, any existing court action, and whether enforcement is practical.
FAQ
Can cryptocurrency stolen in Russia be recovered?
Sometimes. It depends on tracing funds to an exchange or an identifiable party, on the evidence, and on jurisdiction. The practice does not guarantee outcomes and does not publish success rates. If there is no practical path, you will be told so in writing.
What does the review cost?
Nothing. The 12.5% fee exists only after recovered funds reach your account.
Will you ask for my seed phrase or remote access?
Never. Documents and blockchain records are enough for an assessment.
"Bank security" called me and I sent money. What now?
Keep the call records and chats, file a report at a police duty desk or via мвд.рф, and send nothing more. Then request a confidential review.
I already paid another recovery company. Is that a problem?
Treat that payment as a further loss and send nothing more. Describe both transfers in the form.
How fast is the reply?
A specialist replies in writing within business days. There is no phone line and no live chat: everything material stays in writing.
Confidential review
The review starts with six answers: full name, email, country and telephone, amount lost in USD, type of case, and a short account of what happened (up to 5,000 characters). No identity documents are needed at this step. The reply arrives in writing within business days.
One warning matters most: people who already lost money are contacted again within days. A firm that demands an upfront fee, a seed phrase "for verification", a guaranteed result, or immediate remote access is running a second scam.