I had already grieved that money. A so-called broker took £58,000 and then invented fee after fee to ‘release’ it. Seamus listened, told me honestly what was realistic, and never once asked me to pay him up front. Within a few weeks he had traced where it went, and most of it came back.
Hannah reached me after weeks of paying ‘withdrawal fees’ to a fake CFD platform. We ran two tracks at once — card chargebacks and an on-chain trace — and recovered the larger share through a freeze at the exchange her funds were routed to. The lesson she shares now: if a platform asks you to pay money in before it will let you take money out, that fee is the scam.