Not all losses are scams—many stem from forgotten passwords, damaged hardware, or partial seed phrases.
1. Common Scenarios
Forgotten wallet PIN/password.
Partial seed phrase remembered.
Corrupted wallet files from old devices.
2. The Challenge
Without full access, funds appear locked forever.
Brute-forcing full seeds is impractical.
3. Recovery Methods
Experts use:
Targeted analysis on wallet files.
Derivation path testing.
Advanced password cracking (ethical, non-brute-force).
4. Secure Migration
Once accessed, migrate to new secure setups (multisig, hardware).
Where Tracing Can Intervene
This isn't tracing stolen funds it's forensic wallet recovery.
Firms like Cryptera Chain Signals (CCS) offer specialized lost wallet recovery using secure, non-custodial methods no seed required upfront. They've assisted in numerous 2026 cases with high success when partial info exists.
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Always back up seeds securely and test restores periodically.
Scammers launch bogus trading/investment sites promising guaranteed returns, then vanish with deposits.
1. Luring Victims
Ads on social media or Telegram promote "AI trading bots" or "exclusive funds."
Victims sign up and deposit crypto via provided wallets.
2. Controlled Environment
Fake interfaces show rising balances to encourage more investment.
Withdrawals blocked with excuses ("taxes," "verification").
3. The Exit Scam
When enough funds accumulate:
Site goes offline.
Funds transferred out rapidly.
4. Obfuscation & Cash-Out
Similar to other scams: splitting, mixing, chain-hopping, then exchange fiat off-ramps.
Where Tracing Can Intervene
Many platforms use traceable patterns (e.g., repeated deposit addresses).
Early Alerts: Monitor for sudden outflows.
Clustering: Group related wallets to reveal operators.
Legal Leverage: Evidence supports civil or criminal action.
Cryptera Chain Signals (CCS) analyzes these platforms' transaction histories, traces to exchanges, and supports recovery efforts with detailed reports and partnerships.
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Research platforms thoroughly check audits, team transparency, and community feedback.
Phishing remains one of the most common ways scammers steal crypto—often through fake websites, malicious emails, or compromised links.
1. The Bait
Victims receive urgent messages: "Your wallet is at risk—verify here" or fake airdrop/claim links from trusted projects.
Clicking leads to spoofed sites mimicking MetaMask, Ledger, or exchanges.
Users enter seed phrases, private keys, or approve malicious transactions.
2. Instant Drainage
Once credentials or approvals are obtained:
Scammers sweep funds to their address.
Drainers auto-transfer everything (tokens, NFTs).
3. Rapid Laundering
Funds move fast:
Split and peeled into smaller amounts.
Bridged to other chains.
Mixed or swapped to break links.
4. Cash-Out
Deposited to exchanges, often KYC-bypassed via layered accounts.
Where Tracing Can Intervene
Phishing thefts leave clear on-chain trails if reported quickly.
Real-Time Monitoring: Track outgoing sweeps and downstream hops.
Pattern Recognition: Identify common drainer signatures or exchange deposit clusters.
Freeze Potential: Exchanges can halt if illicit origin proven early.
Firms like Cryptera Chain Signals (CCS) excel at rapid phishing investigations, using AI-powered tracing to follow funds across chains and facilitate exchange freezes. In 2026, they've helped recover significant portions in time-sensitive cases.
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Protect yourself with hardware wallets and bookmark verification never enter seeds online.
The rise of cryptocurrency has amplified romance scams, where fraudsters build emotional trust over weeks or months before requesting funds. These "pig butchering" operations are particularly devastating because victims often send large sums willingly.
1. Building False Trust
Scammers create fake profiles on dating apps or social media, posing as successful investors or entrepreneurs. They share "proof" of crypto gains to lure victims into trading platforms they control.
Conversations escalate to "exclusive opportunities" like private presales or high-yield pools.
Victims are guided to deposit crypto into wallets or fake exchanges.
2. The Extraction Phase
Once trust is established, scammers pressure victims to invest more, promising quick returns.
Funds go to scammer-controlled addresses.
Fake dashboards show fabricated profits to encourage further deposits.
3. Obfuscation Tactics
After extraction, funds are quickly moved:
Split across dozens of wallets.
Hopped through bridges to privacy-focused chains.
Mixed via services or converted to privacy coins like Monero.
4. Final Laundering
Cleaned funds hit centralized exchanges for fiat withdrawal, often via mule accounts.
Recovery window closes fast once converted.
Where Tracing Can Intervene
Quick action is essential in romance scams due to the emotional manipulation factor.
Immediate Reporting: Preserve all chat logs, transaction IDs, and screenshots.
Blockchain Analysis: Trace patterns like repeated small deposits or specific bridge usage.
Exchange Cooperation: Provide evidence to freeze incoming deposits.
Blockchain investigation firms like Cryptera Chain Signals (CCS) specialize in tracing romance scam funds through complex paths, identifying endpoints, and assisting with freeze requests. With advanced forensics and a track record of hundreds of recoveries (including 2026 cases), they help victims map flows and pursue actionable steps before full laundering.
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This version splits the change up to be more bisectable. It first adds a
new kino_t typedef and a new "PRIino" macro to hold the width specifier
for format strings. The conversion is done, and then everything is
changed to remove the new macro and typedef.
I also missed a few places in the earlier set. This one hopefully does a
bit more thorough job.
My thanks and apologies to everyone who sent R-b/A-b for the v1 series.
v2 breaks a lot of the changes up into two patches so many of those
didn't carry over. Please resend those if you're still OK with it.
The entire pile is in the "iino-u64" branch of my tree, if anyone is
interested in testing this:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux.git/
Original cover letter follows:
----------------------8<-----------------------
Christian said [1] to "just do it" when I proposed this, so here we are!
For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long,
which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused a
number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier
into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field for
an inode.
This patchset changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a
u64. This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but
32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This could
have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment.
The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since the
kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The first
patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out
carefully.
With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For
instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit
inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be eliminated.
I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to keep this
simple.
Much of this set was generated by LLM, but I attributed it to myself
since I consider this to be in the "menial tasks" category of LLM usage.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260219-portrait-winkt-959070cee42f@…
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)kernel.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use a typedef and macro and do the change in two steps to make it cleanly bisectable
- Fix check_for_busy_inodes() in fscrypt
- Added patch to reorganize tracepoint structs for better packing
- Added patch to change sock.sk_ino to u64
- Added patch to clean up internal handling of inode numbers in audit subsystem
- Drop some unnecessary casts
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260226-iino-u64-v1-0-ccceff366db9@kernel.org
---
Jeff Layton (110):
vfs: introduce kino_t typedef and PRIino format macro
vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64
audit: widen ino fields to u64
net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
ext4: use PRIino format for i_ino
jbd2: use PRIino format for i_ino
f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
lockd: use PRIino format for i_ino
nfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
nfsd: use PRIino format for i_ino
locks: use PRIino format for i_ino
proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
nilfs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
9p: use PRIino format for i_ino
affs: use PRIino format for i_ino
afs: use PRIino format for i_ino
autofs: use PRIino format for i_ino
befs: use PRIino format for i_ino
bfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
cachefiles: use PRIino format for i_ino
ceph: use PRIino format for i_ino
coda: use PRIino format for i_ino
cramfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
ecryptfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
efs: use PRIino format for i_ino
exportfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
ext2: use PRIino format for i_ino
freevxfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
hfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
hfsplus: use PRIino format for i_ino
hpfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
isofs: use PRIino format for i_ino
jffs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
jfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
minix: use PRIino format for i_ino
nsfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
ntfs3: use PRIino format for i_ino
ocfs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
orangefs: use PRIino format for i_ino
overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
qnx4: use PRIino format for i_ino
qnx6: use PRIino format for i_ino
ubifs: use PRIino format for i_ino
udf: use PRIino format for i_ino
ufs: use PRIino format for i_ino
zonefs: use PRIino format for i_ino
security: use PRIino format for i_ino
drm/amdgpu: use PRIino format for i_ino
fsnotify: use PRIino format for i_ino
net: use PRIino format for i_ino
uprobes: use PRIino format for i_ino
dma-buf: use PRIino format for i_ino
fscrypt: use PRIino format for i_ino
fsverity: use PRIino format for i_ino
iomap: use PRIino format for i_ino
net: use PRIino format for i_ino
vfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
vfs: change kino_t from unsigned long to u64
ext4: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
jbd2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
f2fs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
lockd: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
nfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
nfsd: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
nilfs2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
9p: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
affs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
afs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
autofs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
befs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
bfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
cachefiles: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ceph: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
coda: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
cramfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ecryptfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
efs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
exportfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ext2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
freevxfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
hfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
hfsplus: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
hpfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
isofs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
jffs2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
jfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
minix: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ntfs3: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ocfs2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
orangefs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
qnx4: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
qnx6: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ubifs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
udf: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
ufs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
zonefs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
fscrypt: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
fsverity: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
iomap: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
fsnotify: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
security: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
drm/amdgpu: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
dma-buf: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
net: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
uprobes: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
vfs: remove kino_t typedef and PRIino format macro
drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 4 +-
fs/9p/vfs_addr.c | 4 +-
fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 6 +-
fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 6 +-
fs/affs/amigaffs.c | 8 +-
fs/affs/bitmap.c | 2 +-
fs/affs/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/affs/file.c | 20 +-
fs/affs/inode.c | 12 +-
fs/affs/namei.c | 14 +-
fs/affs/symlink.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/dir.c | 10 +-
fs/afs/dir_search.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/dynroot.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/autofs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 28 +-
fs/bfs/dir.c | 4 +-
fs/cachefiles/io.c | 6 +-
fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 12 +-
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 2 +-
fs/ceph/crypto.c | 4 +-
fs/coda/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/coda/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/cramfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/crypto/crypto.c | 2 +-
fs/crypto/hooks.c | 2 +-
fs/crypto/keyring.c | 4 +-
fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 2 +-
fs/dcache.c | 4 +-
fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 6 +-
fs/ecryptfs/file.c | 2 +-
fs/efs/inode.c | 6 +-
fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +-
fs/exportfs/expfs.c | 4 +-
fs/ext2/dir.c | 10 +-
fs/ext2/ialloc.c | 9 +-
fs/ext2/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ext2/trace.h | 8 +-
fs/ext2/xattr.c | 14 +-
fs/ext4/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 4 +-
fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 +-
fs/ext4/extents_status.c | 28 +-
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 8 +-
fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 10 +-
fs/ext4/indirect.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/inline.c | 14 +-
fs/ext4/inode.c | 22 +-
fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 +-
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +-
fs/ext4/migrate.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 20 +-
fs/ext4/namei.c | 10 +-
fs/ext4/orphan.c | 16 +-
fs/ext4/page-io.c | 10 +-
fs/ext4/super.c | 22 +-
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 10 +-
fs/f2fs/compress.c | 4 +-
fs/f2fs/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c | 8 +-
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 6 +-
fs/f2fs/file.c | 12 +-
fs/f2fs/gc.c | 2 +-
fs/f2fs/inline.c | 4 +-
fs/f2fs/inode.c | 48 ++--
fs/f2fs/namei.c | 8 +-
fs/f2fs/node.c | 12 +-
fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 10 +-
fs/f2fs/xattr.c | 10 +-
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_bmap.c | 4 +-
fs/fserror.c | 2 +-
fs/hfs/catalog.c | 2 +-
fs/hfs/extent.c | 4 +-
fs/hfs/inode.c | 4 +-
fs/hfsplus/attributes.c | 10 +-
fs/hfsplus/catalog.c | 2 +-
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 6 +-
fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 6 +-
fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 8 +-
fs/hfsplus/super.c | 6 +-
fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 10 +-
fs/hpfs/dir.c | 4 +-
fs/hpfs/dnode.c | 4 +-
fs/hpfs/ea.c | 4 +-
fs/hpfs/inode.c | 4 +-
fs/inode.c | 49 ++--
fs/iomap/ioend.c | 2 +-
fs/iomap/trace.h | 8 +-
fs/isofs/compress.c | 2 +-
fs/isofs/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/isofs/inode.c | 6 +-
fs/isofs/namei.c | 2 +-
fs/jbd2/journal.c | 4 +-
fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 2 +-
fs/jffs2/dir.c | 4 +-
fs/jffs2/file.c | 4 +-
fs/jffs2/fs.c | 18 +-
fs/jfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c | 2 +-
fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c | 2 +-
fs/lockd/svclock.c | 8 +-
fs/lockd/svcsubs.c | 2 +-
fs/locks.c | 6 +-
fs/minix/inode.c | 10 +-
fs/nfs/dir.c | 20 +-
fs/nfs/file.c | 8 +-
fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c | 8 +-
fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c | 8 +-
fs/nfs/inode.c | 6 +-
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 4 +-
fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 12 +-
fs/nfsd/export.c | 2 +-
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 4 +-
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c | 4 +-
fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/alloc.c | 10 +-
fs/nilfs2/bmap.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/btnode.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/btree.c | 12 +-
fs/nilfs2/dir.c | 12 +-
fs/nilfs2/direct.c | 4 +-
fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 8 +-
fs/nilfs2/mdt.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 2 +-
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 +-
fs/notify/fdinfo.c | 4 +-
fs/nsfs.c | 4 +-
fs/ntfs3/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/alloc.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 4 +-
fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 8 +-
fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c | 10 +-
fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c | 12 +-
fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c | 10 +-
fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 4 +-
fs/orangefs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/overlayfs/export.c | 2 +-
fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 4 +-
fs/overlayfs/util.c | 2 +-
fs/pipe.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/fd.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 +-
fs/qnx4/inode.c | 4 +-
fs/qnx6/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ubifs/debug.c | 8 +-
fs/ubifs/dir.c | 28 +-
fs/ubifs/file.c | 28 +-
fs/ubifs/journal.c | 6 +-
fs/ubifs/super.c | 16 +-
fs/ubifs/tnc.c | 4 +-
fs/ubifs/xattr.c | 14 +-
fs/udf/directory.c | 18 +-
fs/udf/file.c | 2 +-
fs/udf/inode.c | 12 +-
fs/udf/namei.c | 8 +-
fs/udf/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ufs/balloc.c | 6 +-
fs/ufs/dir.c | 10 +-
fs/ufs/ialloc.c | 6 +-
fs/ufs/inode.c | 18 +-
fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h | 6 +-
fs/ufs/util.c | 2 +-
fs/verity/init.c | 2 +-
fs/zonefs/super.c | 8 +-
fs/zonefs/trace.h | 18 +-
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 28 +-
include/net/sock.h | 4 +-
include/trace/events/cachefiles.h | 18 +-
include/trace/events/ext4.h | 423 +++++++++++++++--------------
include/trace/events/f2fs.h | 172 ++++++------
include/trace/events/filelock.h | 34 +--
include/trace/events/filemap.h | 20 +-
include/trace/events/fs_dax.h | 20 +-
include/trace/events/fsverity.h | 30 +-
include/trace/events/hugetlbfs.h | 42 +--
include/trace/events/netfs.h | 8 +-
include/trace/events/nilfs2.h | 12 +-
include/trace/events/readahead.h | 18 +-
include/trace/events/timestamp.h | 16 +-
include/trace/events/writeback.h | 162 +++++------
kernel/audit.h | 9 +-
kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 4 +-
kernel/audit_watch.c | 8 +-
kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 4 +-
net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 2 +-
net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c | 4 +-
net/can/bcm.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/raw.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/datagram.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +-
net/key/af_key.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/diag.c | 2 +-
net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 4 +-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +-
net/packet/diag.c | 2 +-
net/phonet/socket.c | 4 +-
net/rose/af_rose.c | 4 +-
net/sctp/proc.c | 4 +-
net/socket.c | 2 +-
net/unix/af_unix.c | 2 +-
net/unix/diag.c | 6 +-
net/x25/x25_proc.c | 4 +-
net/xdp/xsk_diag.c | 2 +-
security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 4 +-
security/integrity/integrity_audit.c | 2 +-
security/ipe/audit.c | 2 +-
security/lsm_audit.c | 10 +-
security/selinux/hooks.c | 10 +-
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 12 +-
220 files changed, 1181 insertions(+), 1181 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 842cfe0733c5a03982a7ae496de6fdc0dd661a41
change-id: 20260224-iino-u64-b44a3a72543c
Best regards,
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)kernel.org>
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Important Warnings
Never share your seed phrase, private keys, or password with anyone.
Beware of scams promising guaranteed recovery for upfront fees.
Prevention is key: Back up your seed phrase securely and use strong, memorable passwords.
Act quickly and carefully your funds depend on it. Good luck!