About us

Dr. Marc Maisch and Timo Züfle are recognized experts in the field of crypto-crime. Dr. Marc Maisch is a lawyer with his own law firm in Munich, specializing in IT law and cybercrime. He is known for his extensive expertise in combating crypto fraud and works as a cooperation partner with Timo Zuefle (Crypto-Tracing.com) to represent and advise victims of fraud.

Timo Zuefle is a certified blockchain forensic expert and founder of Crypto-Tracing.com. He specializes in tracing cryptocurrency transactions and has established himself as an expert in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Zuefle is known for his ability to analyze money flows in the blockchain and uncover identities at central payout points. Both experts are leaders in investigating and combating cybercrime in the field of cryptocurrencies.

Together they founded the german portal Kryptobetrugshilfe.de (Cryptoscamhelp) and are very proud on the big number of solved cases and vitctims that were rescued of further losses or even criminal conviction as money mules.

Step 1: Contact us (free assessment)

On our website you will find lots of free information and tips on how to help yourself. Of course, you are welcome to contact us directly at any time. The best and quickest way to do this is to enter your details in our contact form (in German). 

Please just leave a message containing the information about what has happened and how much money you have lost. Anything can be important. At best please send us your transaction data! We can back to you via WhatsApp if we have got your phone number.

Please leave us your contact details so that we can assess your case free of charge. Please let us know your suspicions and the amount of the loss incurred. By this we mean the amount of money that you have paid into one or more platforms, transferred to a broker or other contact person. This information is very important for us to assess the urgency of your case.

Step 2: Verification of your data

Once we have received your information, we will check your details. Unfortunately, our capacity for new cases is very limited. We can therefore only accept cases that have a chance of being successfully investigated. This is not usually the case for minor claims.

If your case has a chance of success, we will carry out a free initial assessment. To do this, we will contact you to trace one of the cryptocurrency transactions and determine the ratings of the recipient wallets. To do this, we ask you to send us wallet addresses and help you to read them out. If your account with the cryptocurrency exchange is blocked, we will also help you with this.

Based on the wallet addresses to which money was transferred, these analysis software applications can be used to determine how the money was transferred. These investigations are not only important to rule out or substantiate the initial suspicion of fraudin order to fulfill the requirements of a police investigation.

A so-called cryptocurrency report with a transaction table is also of central importance for the success of the police investigation and for the speed of the investigative measures. We investigate further traces with OSINT rakes and database queries in order to provide the law enforcement authorities with as much information as possible.

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Step 3: You receive a free initial assessment

Once the preliminary investigations have been completed, Timo Züfle’s team at Crypto-Tracing.com will contact the injured party or parties. The preliminary results will be discussed. This discussion can take place by telephone or in the form of an assessment by e-mail. Further steps can then be discussed at the request of the injured party.

All offers include a description of services and an offer price for a one-off payment. Additional services can be booked at any time. There are no hidden costs. If you would like to book an additional service at a later date that was not included in the service package you ordered, we will be happy to make you – as an existing customer – a good offer.

Step 3: Our Offer and prices

If you would like to work with us, we will be happy to make you an offer. The prices depend on the complexity of the matter in question, the scope of the audit steps and how many service hours, e.g. telephone advice, are to be booked in addition. Fair pricing is particularly important to us.

That is why we offer you all our own services and those of our cooperation partners at package prices. The service packages do not differ in quality, but only in the scope of the activities booked. An upgrade, e.g. from a basic package to a medium package, is possible at any time for an additional charge. There are no hidden costs.

Step 4: IT forensics & cryptocurrency expertise

A cryptocurrency expert opinion is an essential tool for taking action against the perpetrators in cases of fraud involving cryptocurrencies. The expert opinion serves to provide the criminal investigation department with all the relevant data and facts relating to the transactions that it needs for the investigation. The flow of money without significant intermediate steps must be verifiable in order to convict and identify perpetrators. The cryptocurrency expert opinion is therefore the central component of our advice and strategy for tracing lost money. We also rely on our network of money laundering officers, lawyers and investigators abroad.

Step 5: Legal advice and representation

Another central component of our services is the cooperation and close collaboration with highly specialized lawyers. Our partners, above all the law firm Maisch.law Rechtsanwälte and its partners, are based in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries. As experts in the field of cybercrime and cryptocrime, they are familiar with all the latest scams used by perpetrators of organized crime. Our cooperation partners not only offer legal advice, but also represent the injured parties against financial and law enforcement authorities, cryptocurrency exchanges (e.g. Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bitpanda, Crypto.com and many more).

The legal services are available in three transparently described service packages – the injured party decides for themselves which scope of services should be booked. Thanks to their specialization and international network, as well as the daily telephone exchange with criminal police authorities worldwide, these lawyers are able to effectively advance the investigations. Our cooperation lawyers also contact cryptocurrency exchanges or brokers directly on request in order to correspond with money laundering officers or anti-fraud departments.

Both crypto fraud and broker fraud are forms of cybercrime that have virtually overwhelmed law enforcement authorities in recent months. In some German states, the criminal investigation departments lack either trained personnel or licenses for crypto analysis software (or both). These are certainly not good conditions for successful investigations. The gangs of criminals have set themselves up very professionally and distribute their tasks in a decentralized and anonymous manner, which sometimes makes investigations impossible or so time-consuming that the police have to discontinue proceedings. Our experience shows that expert advice and a targeted approach can be decisive in giving the criminal investigation department an important time advantage. With the help of our cooperation partners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, we have therefore already succeeded in individual cases in making spectacular arrests of suspects, tracing the money back to the perpetrators‘ crypto credit cards or money flows to other European countries and enforcing claims for compensation. These results make us very proud.

Get your free assessment today:

The best and quickest way to do this is to enter your details in our contact form (in German). Please just leave a message containing the information about what has happened and how much money / coins you have lost. Anything can be important. At best: please send us your transaction data! We can back to you via WhatsApp if we have got your phone number.