Cryptocurrency Fraud & Recovery Lawyer
If you are a victim of a cryptocurrency scam or fraudulent scheme, our skilled team of crypto recovery lawyers can offer help and hope for reclaiming your stolen money.
Before pursuing legal counsel and action, please file a report with local law enforcement and the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
Cryptocurrency fraud is a developing area of law, and Berg PC is a leading innovator in tracing, freezing, and recovering stolen funds in Court. Since these frauds began, identifying, locating, and tracing the stolen crypto has been nearly impossible. That may now change.
We Pursue Crypto Scam Recovery in Court
Geoff Berg, a nationally recognized trial lawyer with 30 years of experience, is countering the crimes of crypto scammers in Court.
On July 31, 2025, Geoff was featured on ABC13 News to offer his expertise on the recent indictment of a cryptocurrency executive from Cypress, Texas, allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud investors.
Our team includes high-profile trial lawyers like Geoff and world-renowned financial crime investigators with decades of experience in the private sector and from their time at places like the United States Marine Corps, the National Security Agency, and other government organizations. The firm and its investigators have the following capabilities:
- Tracing Stolen Cryptocurrency Assets on the Blockchain
- Locating Criminal Wallet Addresses
- Identifying Cryptocurrency Scammers
- Collaborating with Exchange Platforms & VASPs
- Freezing Criminal Wallets Through Court Proceedings
Tracing and freezing stolen crypto assets make recovering your money possible, allowing our firm to make unprecedented advancements in the fight against crypto scams and fraud.
Beware of Fictitious Law Firms Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Victims
In a particularly cruel and devious development, cryptocurrency scammers have begun posing as law firms and investigators promising to help their own victims.
On June 24, 2024, the FBI issued alert number I-062424-PSA which announced that “fraudsters posing as lawyers representing fictitious law firms may contact scam victims and offer their services, claiming to have the authorization to investigate fund recovery cases… In some instances, scam victims have contacted fraudsters on fake websites, which appear legitimate, hoping to recover their funds.”
Scammers are re-victimizing those they have already stolen from by setting up phony law firm and investigator websites. These “lawyers” and “investigators” promise to help you recover what you’ve lost – for an up front fee.
Our cases are handled on a contingency basis. We are paid with a portion of any recovery.
We do not ask for fees up front. If there is NO RECOVERY, there is NO FEE.
If you are a victim of a cryptocurrency scam, it is imperative that you protect yourself from cryptocurrency recovery schemes.
Whoever you hire, always confirm with their state bar or licensing agency that they are real, and their contact information matches what you see on their website.
Scammers frequently change small details in domain names to impersonate legitimate ones.
Our Results: Recovering Stolen Cryptocurrency
It is important to note that the likelihood of successful crypto scam recovery varies depending on the complexity of the scam and the technical measures used to hide the location of assets.
Recovering your stolen crypto is never a guarantee, but Berg PC is expanding the frontiers of what is now possible.
2025: Delivered $500,000 of Stolen Crypto to Texas Family
After a Texas man was killed in a car crash in 2023, his family began the painful process of settling his affairs. They soon learned he had quietly amassed a large cryptocurrency portfolio, one worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
While the family searched for access to his accounts, several of the deceased’s friends offered to “help.” What seemed like a kind offer in a time of tremendous distress was the first step in a well-planned and executed theft of opportunity.
In 2025, the firm helped a Texas family recover nearly $500,000 in stolen Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies.
Read more about the case and what was filed and awarded by the court:
2024: Injunction Freezing 30 Wallets of Stolen Crypto
In 2024, on behalf of two classes of victims, the firm filed and was awarded injunctions freezing 30 wallets containing stolen cryptocurrency believed to be worth tens, and possibly hundreds, of millions of dollars.
It is the first order of its kind in Texas.
Read some of what was filed and awarded by the court:
Work with Us to Expose Crypto Scammers
Berg PC is based in Houston but practices nationally.
In cryptocurrency-related matters, the firm has been associated with, co-counseled, or otherwise involved in matters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Miami.
Our lawyers are licensed in Texas, Colorado*, and Pennsylvania*.
We are making strides with each case, and you can help us continue the fight against cryptocurrency scams and fraudulent schemes by making your voice heard.
If you or someone you know is a victim of a cryptocurrency scam or fraudulent scheme, please provide details about yourself and your case.
We are here to help, and the first step is to perform a preliminary evaluation. After reviewing your case, we’ll be in touch with the next steps.
If you wish to continue learning about our developing crypto litigation strategy, you will find more information after the form. (*Inactive)
How to Recover Cryptocurrency with the Right Lawyer in Court
Cryptocurrency fraud is a new and evolving multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise, but there are emerging legal strategies for countering the crimes of crypto scammers in court.
When crypto is stolen, the method of theft – pig butchering, romance scams, repair scams, job offer scams or whatever it is – dictates the way a lawyer approaches any attempt at recovery.
If you are cryptocurrency scam victim seeking justice and restitution, take these foundational steps toward recovering your stolen crypto in a court of law:
Step One: Hiring a Lawyer Who Knows the Right Investigators
Tracing and freezing stolen crypto assets make recovering your money in court possible, which requires the knowledge and experience of skilled financial crime investigators.
The best financial crime investigators in the industry are former military or intelligence officers, so hire a lawyer with these connections.
Investigators know what they are doing, and they know where to look for the crypto you have lost.
If they cannot find it, they will tell your lawyer, and your lawyer will tell you. If they can identify your lost crypto, you will move to the next stage of potential recovery.
In college, Geoff Berg volunteered for ROTC, becoming the first student at NYU since the 1960s to do so. Berg PC has partnered with a consortium of digital investigators, including those with backgrounds in three-letter US government agencies.
Step Two: Filing the Right Kind of Lawsuit
When attempting to recover stolen crypto, speed is critical. Victims are often without the assets necessary to live or avoid bankruptcy, and crypto is easily moved, which can make it more difficult to track over time.
Though impatience in these situations is understandable and may even be necessary depending on a victim’s financial situation, it is more important to complete a thorough investigation of your case before stepping into a courtroom with your lawyer.
The relief you are requesting from a judge is not something they see every day. Most judges and juries will have little to no knowledge of cryptocurrency.
It is critical that your lawyer be able to anticipate and honestly, directly, and knowledgeably answer a judge’s questions before making any request of any court.
If your lawyer lacks the knowledge, expertise, and credibility to answer the judge’s questions about cryptocurrency in general and your case in particular, the judge is not going to be comfortable awarding the relief you seek.
Step Three: Be Patient
If you have made it to court and filed a suit, you will want your crypto back the next day, but that is not how the legal system works.
Procedures must be followed and rules obeyed before any final relief is granted. In some cases, you will need to produce documents, give testimony, and even have a trial.
When all is said and done, it is possible to recover stolen cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency Recovery is New & Developing Area of Law
Even when working with state and federal law enforcement, the likelihood of recovering stolen cryptocurrency is very low. Government agencies often lack the time, resources, and expertise to trace, let alone reclaim, lost funds due to the anonymous nature of cryptocurrency. As Bloomberg News reported in 2023:
Decentralized wallets and private platforms are even out of reach of US law enforcement in most instances.
The law enforcement referral option is also quickly becoming less available to victims who complete the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s online iC3 loss form. In most cases, local authorities lack training, resources, and ability to investigate cross-border criminals or recover cryptocurrency coins from private offshore wallets.
FBI and Department of Justice crypto task forces, in collaboration with other federal agencies, still remain the best route for investigations. But the challenge is to persuade the appropriate authorities to accept and then investigate a crypto case.
The massive explosion in the number of scams has produced a corresponding explosion in the number of referrals. Consequently, a long waiting list of complaints is piling up, and federal authorities likely cannot handle all the cases.
Cryptocurrency fraud is a relatively new and emerging multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise run by skilled, smart, and motivated criminal organizations. They create and maintain complex schemes designed to steal and keep the money of their victims. As a result, little to no recourse existed for those whose lives have been devastated by cryptocurrency scams and fraud.
Successful legal strategies to counter this unprecedented type of financial crime and bring the responsible parties to justice have been largely nonexistent, but recent innovations and developments at Berg PC may offer victims hope.
Our Innovative & Actionable Litigation Strategy to Recover Stolen Cryptocurrency in Court
Geoff Berg is a trailblazer in cryptocurrency law and recovery. It is all very new, but in some instances recovery, even partial recovery, may be possible. Geoff has been developing effective legal strategies to counter cryptocurrency fraud and reclaim stolen money in cooperation with exceptionally skilled financial crime investigators.
Tracing Cryptocurrency Assets with the Help of Investigators
Cryptocurrency is traceable with the right technology and expertise. Geoff Berg leverages the skills and experience of world-renowned investigators who have worked for the FBI, NSA and other government agencies in the fight against global financial crime.
Sophisticated cryptocurrency tracing tools, methods, and resources allow investigators to trace transactions on the blockchain and identify the perpetuator’s wallet address.
Once a specific wallet is identified, investigators can gather critical information, including whether other stolen cryptocurrency has been pooled, an important component in determining how many people or organizations the criminal may have victimized.
Collaborating with Cryptocurrency Exchange Platforms & VASPs
Many law firms and investigators sue exchanges. To date, Berg PC has not for one reason: they have, in many instances, cooperated with us in complying with court orders to freeze the wallet addresses we have identified as containing stolen funds.
Most major cryptocurrency exchange platforms are based outside the United States and beyond the jurisdiction of state and federal courts, which makes the enforcement of legal rulings difficult, if not impossible – unless the exchanges agree to cooperate.
Berg PC avoids legal action against leading exchange platforms. We seek to work with them rather than against them. It is often in the interest of cryptocurrency exchange platforms and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to root out the cryptocurrency scammers and criminals using their products and services.
By working with top exchange platforms and VASPs, our team of financial crime investigators and cryptocurrency fraud lawyers can gather evidence necessary for potential crypto scam recovery in Court.
Law Enforcement vs. Private Lawyers: What is the Process of Crypto Recovery?
For law enforcement, crypto recovery involves a series of steps they like to keep secret.
Police have powers private citizens and lawyers do not: they can issue grand jury subpoenas, seek warrants to search places or things, file suits to seize property, and indict and arrest scammers.
Law enforcement brings considerable power to bear when recovering and returning your crypto, but they are overwhelmed.
A recent study from John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin, estimates $75 billion in global victims’ losses to pig butchering scams, and that estimate was in February of 2024.
The number is no doubt much larger now. Given the size and scope of the pig butchering epidemic, law enforcement does not have the resources to help everyone.
Using the right investigators, private lawyers can file suit on your behalf or on behalf of a class of victims. This is an entirely new method of crypto recovery.
Lawyers and courts are still learning how to do it right, but judgments are becoming more frequent. Members of Inca’s team recently obtained a $10.2 million award in New York on behalf of victims of crypto scams.
How Long Does Crypto Recovery Take?
Crypto recovery by law enforcement can be done in a short time. If you have been the victim of a crypto scam, report your loss to the FBI on its IC3 portal: https://www.ic3.gov/.
Unfortunately, the odds of police using their considerable power to investigate and return your stolen cryptocurrency are low – much lower than anyone, including law enforcement, would like.
Going through the courts takes longer, but it is often the only option for victims. In most cases, due process rules require courts to wait at least 75 days before entering a final judgment in your favor.
Practically speaking, recovery takes months. In large cities, where dockets are crowded and courts handle thousands of cases at a time, it could take years.
What Type of Lawyer Do You Need to Recover Crypto Losses?
The lawyer you hire will likely dictate the outcome of your case. You need a lawyer who has tried cases, understands cryptocurrency, the blockchain, and the workings of the crypto economy.
According to the Pew Research Center, only 17% of Americans have ever traded or used cryptocurrency, and 63% believe the system is not safe and reliable.
You need a lawyer who understands crypto well enough to explain it to a judge and jury with no in-depth knowledge of it – someone who can explain how an otherwise normal person found themselves in your situation.
Hiring a lawyer under any circumstances is personal. If you have recently lost money in a crypto scam, it is even more personal: you are vulnerable, shocked, sad, worried, and angry.
You are probably not yourself. Hire a lawyer who understands and empathizes. You should always ask a lawyer whatever relevant questions occur to you.
How long has the lawyer been practicing? What kinds of results has the lawyer gotten? What is the lawyer’s reputation among other lawyers in the area where they practice?
Finally, how aggressive is the lawyer prepared to be? Is the lawyer passionate enough to fight for you?
If you need an experienced trial lawyer to fight for you and the recovery of your stolen crypto, we may be able to help.
Contact a Cryptocurrency Fraud Attorney in Houston, Texas
Berg PC is committed to fighting cryptocurrency fraud and further developing legal strategies to make the recovery of stolen money possible.
Should the firm take on your case, Geoff Berg and our cryptocurrency recovery lawyers will do everything they can to reclaim what is rightfully yours.
We offer initial consultations at no charge. If the firm accepts your case, it will be handled on a contingency fee basis, meaning that if we do not recover money or cryptocurrency on your behalf, you pay nothing.
Please contact us for a preliminary evaluation. After reviewing your case diligently, we will be in touch with next steps.
