Alert · Recovery & Support Fraud
Business named in this report
Asset Reclaim Unit approaches people who have already lost money, quoting the exact amount and platform involved. It presents a case portal showing 'recovered' funds and requests a retainer, a blockchain gas fee, and a release tax. Five people who had already been defrauded lost a further $46,900. The contact handle is shared with a trading platform in this feed.
Critical: Payment evidence on file, nothing delivered, and nothing refunded. Assume anyone reaching you with these details belongs to the same operation.
Do not wire funds to asset-reclaim-unit.example.com. If anyone using the details on this page asks for payment before you are holding documents you can independently check, stop the transaction — the same numbers and addresses reappear behind new company names.
Sample recordAn illustrative alert used while the live intake feed is being connected. The domain belongs to the reserved example.com documentation namespace and does not name a real business.
Objective, checkable findings behind this severity level
What happened, in order
Jun 20, 2026
Domain registered
Same nameservers as an active trading platform in this feed.
Jul 11, 2026
First reported contact
Cold messenger approach quoting an exact prior loss figure.
Jul 24, 2026
First retainer paid
$7,500 retainer plus a $2,100 'gas fee'.
Jul 29, 2026
First alert filed
Aug 18, 2026
Release tax demanded
A 9 percent 'release tax' requested before any payout.
Aug 19, 2026
Still live
Case portal and intake form functional at the last check.
First-hand descriptions from people who paid. Names are shortened at the reporter's request.
Andrew
Kent, UK
$18,600
Had already lost money on a trading platform. Was contacted by someone who knew the exact figure and the platform name, and who sent a case file with a reference number. Paid a $7,500 retainer, then a $2,100 gas fee, then a partial release tax. The portal showed his funds as recovered the entire time. It was the same messenger handle he had spoken to on the original platform.
N.D.
Ohio, US
$12,400
Was told a court order had been secured and only a filing fee remained. The case number did not correspond to any court record when checked.
F.A.
Cape Town, ZA
$9,200
Was asked for gift card codes for an 'international filing fee', and granted a remote session so the agent could 'verify the wallet'. Two further accounts were accessed during that session.
What was checked and what it showed
Victim list reuse
communicationOpening messages quote loss amounts that match earlier reports about a specific platform.
Shared infrastructure
hostingSame nameservers as an active trading platform in this feed.
Advance-fee structure
paymentRetainer, gas fee, then release tax, all payable before anything is returned.
Copied credentials
contentMethodology pages and certification badges taken from a genuine analytics firm.
Registered agent address
contactThe DC address is a registered agent service with no offices for this entity.
Contact points, wallets, and payment details as reported
Domain
Operator name
Aliases used
Approach platforms
Handles & accounts
Wallet addresses
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Addresses claimed
Payment routes requested
Bank beneficiaries (masked)
Assets copied from
Related domains
Bank and card numbers are published in masked form only. Full details are retained for law enforcement requests and are not disclosed publicly.
The questions people search before they pay, answered from this record
asset-reclaim-unit.example.com, operating as Asset Reclaim Unit, carries a severity of "critical" in the Scam Alerted feed — payment evidence on file, nothing delivered, and nothing refunded. Assume anyone reaching you with these details belongs to the same operation. Asset Reclaim Unit approaches people who have already lost money, quoting the exact amount and platform involved. It presents a case portal showing 'recovered' funds and requests a retainer, a blockchain gas fee, and a release tax. Five people who had already been defrauded lost a further $46,900. The contact handle is shared with a trading platform in this feed. This alert was first published Jul 29, 2026 and last updated Aug 18, 2026.
$46,900 across 5 reporting parties who supplied payment evidence. Read that as a floor, not a total: this figure counts only losses backed by documents we have seen, so it can move in one direction as further reports arrive.
The domain was registered Jun 20, 2026 through Privacy-shielded registrar, making it about 3 months old. Genuine recovery and support operators do not run a business of this size on a domain that new, so registration age alone is a significant warning sign.
The address published for this business is Cites a Washington, DC address occupied by a registered agent service. Buyers were dealt with by phone on +1 (202) 555-0147 (VoIP) and by email at cases@asset-reclaim-unit.example.com. The website is asset-reclaim-unit.example.com. Related domains on record: meridian-capital-desk.example.com, reclaim-case-portal.example.com. These are published so that anyone searching a number, an address, or a domain before paying finds this record first. An address or phone number shown on a website is not proof that a business trades from it — verify it against the state business register and independent imagery before you send funds.
Reported payment routes: USDT (TRC-20), Bank transfer, Gift card codes for 'filing fees'. Beneficiaries on record (masked): ARU Services LLC at Payment institution. A beneficiary name that does not match the advertised brand is one of the strongest single indicators of fraud.
Brand names and aliases: Global Asset Reclaim, Blockchain Tracing Unit, ARU Chambers. Handles and accounts: @aru.casedesk, Case officer 'Alicia Grant', 'Regulatory liaison' account on two messengers. Wallet addresses: TRC-20 ••••••••4c81b. Phone numbers: +1 (202) 555-0147 (VoIP). Searching these identifiers is usually what links a brand-new site to an operation already on record.
The window is set by the rail you paid on, and it starts closing the moment the payment settles rather than the moment you realise. A wire is the narrowest: while the funds are still sitting in the receiving account, your bank can ask the beneficiary bank to send them back, which is why the first call is your own bank's fraud line and not the seller. Card and PayPal goods-and-services payments carry a formal dispute route that stays open for weeks. Cryptocurrency has none at all. Once your bank has opened a recall, file with your national fraud body so investigators can approach the receiving institution independently of you. Anyone who contacts you afterwards offering to recover the money for a fee up front is running a second attempt on the same victim.
Act on the payment route first, the paperwork second
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Reported lost
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Reported lost
$214K
Reports
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