CLAIM · SAR-2026-0512 · VERIFIED & COORDINATED
After losing money once, a San Diego teacher was contacted by a “recovery agent” promising to get it all back — for a fee. That second operator used the Chain Capital Assets Taps name and took $31,900 in “processing” payments before she filed with us. This is the fraud SARFUND exists to interrupt.
- Intake
- Verification
- Match
- Coordination
- Resolution
01 How the claim came in
This is the claim type we treat as a matter of principle. The claimant had already been defrauded once. Weeks later, a caller claiming to be a “fund recovery specialist” told her that her money had been located and could be released for a series of “processing” and “liquidity” fees, paid in USDT, under the Chain Capital Assets Taps name. She paid $31,900 in fees before she searched, found our registry, and filed.
The first thing we did was stop the bleeding: no genuine recovery process asks for up-front fees in stablecoin. We told her to make no further payments before we verified anything.
02 What we verified
Verification here served two purposes — grounding a claim, and confirming for the claimant that the “recovery agent” was the second scam, not a rescue.
- Confirmed the operator against our Chain Capital Assets Taps file and its advance-fee recovery-scam pattern.
- Established that the “fees” went to fresh wallet addresses, not to any custodial or legal process.
- Verified that the promise to “release located funds for a fee” is the defining marker of a recovery scam.
- Documented the fee sequence so the matched partner had a complete record of the second fraud.
03 Connecting to a vetted partner
Partner identity stays masked until a claim is filed
We matched the fee-fraud claim to a vetted recovery partner covering US stablecoin cases. As with every claim, the partner stayed masked until she filed and chose to connect — which is itself the opposite of how the fake “agent” operated.
04 What SARFUND did
- Halted further payments at intake — the most valuable single step in a double-fraud claim.
- Documented the advance-fee sequence and matched the destination wallets against our registry.
- Matched the claim to a vetted partner experienced with advance-fee recovery-scam cases.
- Relayed the partner’s requests and tracked engagement with the receiving services.
- Closed the claim and flagged the recovery-scam operator prominently to protect the next person searching.
05 Red flags, in hindsight
- Anyone who contacts you claiming to have “located” your lost funds.
- A “recovery” service that asks for fees up front, especially in crypto.
- Pressure to pay “processing,” “liquidity,” or “tax” charges to release money said to be yours.
- A second contact that arrives suspiciously soon after a first loss — victim lists are resold.
A genuine intermediary never cold-calls you to demand fees. If someone claims they can recover your money for an up-front payment, stop — then file a claim with us and we will verify who you are really dealing with.
File a claim with SARFUND →SARFUND is an intermediary case registry. We verify reported operators, match claims to vetted recovery partners, and coordinate the claim to resolution — we do not provide direct recovery services.