I have an acquaintance that has lost USD 10k - 20k in a Cryptocurrency Investment scam. I strongly suspect he is about to get involved in what in my mind would be a "Crypto Currency Scam Recovery Scam" - which I posit to be a thing.
Although weary, he is now talking about engaging the services of companies that claim they can recover money from cryptocurrency scammers. I've not come across these businesses before, but I'm scratching my head as to what they can really do other then chase a credit card company (which won't help, he didn't pay by credit card). These companies talk a good game, but are very, very light on details as to what they actually do, but https://www.firstoptionrecovery.com/funds-recovery for example claims a success rate of 92%
Has anyone got any knowledge of these types of services, and, short of resources of a 3 letter agency or equivalnet, is there actually a path to recoverying money back (where the funds were not paid via Credit Card and its been longer then a week since the funds were deposited?