Report fraud to PEGTrace

We build your case and route it to the people who can act. We do not guarantee recovery, and we cannot tell you who did it — that comes out through your bank's dispute process or law enforcement.

Start here — it is free

Filing with the FBI is free. You do not need a lawyer, and you do not need us.

Anyone can file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) themselves, at no cost, at ic3.gov. You fill in what happened. No lawyer is required. No service has to do it for you.

If someone charges you a fee to file an IC3 report on your behalf, that is a scam. Filing is free, and it is yours to do.

PEGTrace does not file for you and does not charge to file. We compose evidence — we organize what happened into one verifiable record you can attach to the report you file yourself. That is a different job from filing, and it never replaces it.

If you do only one thing today, file at ic3.gov.

File free at ic3.gov

Your input is auto-saved on this device as you type.

Who is this report for?

Myself — I was scammed.Someone else — I'm helping a family member or friend.

Your contact info

Stored encrypted. Only cleared analysts can decrypt, and every view is audited.

Full name

Phone

What happened

Fraud type

Date you found out

The day you realized something was wrong.

Date it happened (optional)

Only if you know it. Many people don't, and that is completely normal — leave this blank rather than guessing. A blank field never weakens your report.

Short description

Recorded permanently. Do not include a person's name, an account number, or other identifying detail.

Fraudulent charges

Card / account: last 4 digits only. We never accept a full card number. Anything longer than 4 digits is dropped before it leaves your browser.

Charge #1

Merchant descriptor (as on statement)

Amount (USD)

Date

Card / account — LAST 4 ONLY

Total: $0.00

Investigative identifiers (optional)

If you have any of these, add them here. When you submit, we'll run our available checks on the details you provided and attach the results to your case. Results are investigative signals about wallets, URLs, or IPs — not proof and not a person.

Crypto address (wallet)

If a strange token or a tiny amount showed up in your wallet

First, the good news: copying an address is safe. An address is just a passive identifier, like a phone number written on paper. Looking at it, copying it, or pasting it here cannot notify anyone, cannot alert whoever sent it, and cannot move anything out of your wallet. You are not putting yourself at risk by telling us about it.

What is not safe is interacting with it

Do not send anything to it — not a test amount, not a reply, nothing.
Do not approve, swap, or sell any token that arrived from it. Approving is what gives someone permission to move your funds.
Do not open any link that appears in a token's name or description, even if it looks like a company you know.

Unwanted tokens cannot be deleted from your wallet — that is how blockchains work, and it is not a sign that something is wrong with your account. Anyone offering to "clean" your wallet for a fee is running a second scam.

Chain (auto-detected)

Suspicious URLs (one per line, up to 10)

Recorded permanently. Do not include a person's name, an account number, or other identifying detail.

Suspicious IPs (one per line, up to 10)

Recorded permanently. Do not include a person's name, an account number, or other identifying detail.

Phishing email / text (optional)

If you received a suspicious message tied to this incident, paste the raw headers and/or body. We use the sender domain as an investigative lead — the full text is stored encrypted.

Headers

Body

Share this case with your attorney or law enforcement (optional)

I consent to share my case file with an attorney or law enforcement I choose, to pursue this fraud. I can revoke this later.

Off by default. Turning this on does not share anything automatically — it lets you generate a secure, expiring link or email later. Only your own case is ever shared, never other victims' data.

Attorney matching (optional)

Both boxes are required to make your intake visible to attorneys. Only attorneys who explicitly choose your case receive your contact information.

I consent to having my report reviewed by attorneys who use PEGTrace's evidence platform and who accept new fraud cases matching my case type and location.I consent to attorneys who choose to engage contacting me directly at my provided email/phone. (Only attorneys who explicitly choose my case can contact me; attorneys who do not choose my case receive no contact information.)

Your state (2-letter code) — required for attorney matching

Attorneys who chose to review your intake — criteria-based selection. PEGTrace does not recommend or rank attorneys.

How we handle what you submit is described in our Privacy Policy.

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