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“I’d Written Off £58,000 — Seamus Brought Most of It Home”

Client Testimonial
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, Bristol, UKRecovered £41,000 of £58,000 · fake CFD platform

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.

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Seamus Manley content is informational and investigative. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice.

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Sources: account-holder reports, OSINT, blockchain analytics, and regulator actions (ASIC, BaFin, FCA, SEC, CFTC, FINRA, IC3). Corrections: /submit-a-case/.

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