Tracking scammer's BTC address?

[MiLkz]

Scammed funds start here at this address: ...

Some funds may have ended here?: ...

Anyway to find more information or to do anything about it?

[Natalim]

I check the addresses and it seems like there are only few transactions, so honestly, it's hard to trace it.

Anyone can make a wallet like an electrum wallet and send transactions in and out without getting their information linked to the address, that's how anonymity works. However, if that address would land to exchange where you can verify which exchange it is, then probably you'll be able to get some information on who owns the account, but it will not be easy, you need the authority to issue a document to a certain exchange about your request.

And since the involved amount is not that much, I don't know if you would still go for legal support in case the address ends up in an exchange site.

[MiLkz]

I check the addresses and it seems like there are only few transactions, so honestly, it's hard to trace it.

Anyone can make a wallet like an electrum wallet and send transactions in and out without getting their information linked to the address, that's how anonymity works. However, if that address would land to exchange where you can verify which exchange it is, then probably you'll be able to get some information on who owns the account, but it will not be easy, you need the authority to issue a document to a certain exchange about your request.

And since the involved amount is not that much, I don't know if you would still go for legal support in case the address ends up in an exchange site.

I figured, but my main question is how do I know if/when it ends up at something that has KYC?  How would I know X address is say Binance or something?

[mocacinno]

You can try to follow the transactions on https://www.walletexplorer.com/

It's not a foolproof method, but they are known to be able to correctly identify some of the addresses belonging to some of the wallets of some of the bigger exchanges.

IF you are extremely lucky, and your scammer doesn't move "his" funds to a decent mixer or to some anonymous coin AND makes a deposit to an address that's correctly labelled as belonging to a KYC exchange, you *might* be able to get law enforcement (or a lawyer) involved and track your scammer down... A lot of "if's" and "but's" tough.... Results NOT guaranteed (not by a longshot).

[Natalim]

You can try to follow the transactions on https://www.walletexplorer.com/

I check the address on the site and there's no information yet on the two addresses posted by OP, probably it's not updated in the system yet as transactions are still new.

@MiLkz

If the address will be updated and you will see that there are thousands of transactions, then probably it ended up in an exchange or gambling site, it's hard to tell as I have limited knowledge only in deep tracing of transactions. Hope we have some more experts here ready to share their ideas.

[mocacinno]

You can try to follow the transactions on https://www.walletexplorer.com/

I check the address on the site and there's no information yet on the two addresses posted by OP, probably it's not updated in the system yet as transactions are still new.
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True... Walletexplorer is the free version, IIRC they try to upsell to a premium tool... So, in reality they're usually one or two days behind with their free tool... IDK if it's because they want to upsell, or because they have limited resources for their free version... But yeah, you do have to live with the fact the free tool usually isn't sync'ed up to the current blockheight.

This being said, it's one of the only tools that do this stuff for free (at least, to the best of my knowledge).

They're not really built to be used to actually follow transactions (eventough you could use them for this purpose), but they're more of a tool you could use to look up addresses you find while using an other blockchain explorer... You'd find the addresses with blockchair, blockstream, blockchain.info,... and look them up on walletexplorer (click "show wallet addresses" and see if they belong to a wallet that was identified as belonging to a KYC institution)

@OP: good luck with your enterprise... It's always sad to see somebody got scammed, and i truely hope you find the culprit... Don't get your hopes up tought, most of the time scammers use ways to break the link between their wallets...

[NeuroticFish]

Walletexplorer is the free version

Anyway to find more information or to do anything about it?

Other useful tools may be https://oxt.me or https://ethonym.com
But I guess that the funds need to be moved further for more info.

OP, I've missed the story behind the scam. Maybe you can tell more details. Maybe they can lead to other addresses of the scammer to.

[Avirunes]

The address 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC has two incoming transactions (not gonna focus on incoming transactions) and two outgoing transactions [1] and [2]

In [1], inputs from 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC and 3Fr6SNzrg6KwPYS1kARXGWsFiaRp6C26wK is used to send it to bc1qygm2x3l2wenpp2370wx8sc2g6h8hktlu9kxyyt . So definitely whoever owns 3Fr6S... also owns 35aUq... and looking at the 3Fr6SN ... on walletexplorer it shows a part of wallet : https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00007b2c068135bf/addresses and the wallet has around 19,000 addresses so it is for certain that it is an exchange or a service likely and not any individual operating that address. ^(a)

Now just need to look into transactions where the funds end to or gets linked to some hot wallet of some exchange.
 

[MiLkz]

The address 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC has two incoming transactions (not gonna focus on incoming transactions) and two outgoing transactions [1] and [2]

In [1], inputs from 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC and 3Fr6SNzrg6KwPYS1kARXGWsFiaRp6C26wK is used to send it to bc1qygm2x3l2wenpp2370wx8sc2g6h8hktlu9kxyyt . So definitely whoever owns 3Fr6S... also owns 35aUq... and looking at the 3Fr6SN ... on walletexplorer it shows a part of wallet : https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00007b2c068135bf/addresses and the wallet has around 19,000 addresses so it is for certain that it is an exchange or a service likely and not any individual operating that address. ^(a)

Now just need to look into transactions where the funds end to or gets linked to some hot wallet of some exchange.

Yes, im afraid it could also be gambling as well.

I wonder if there is anywhere decent to report addresses like this.

thanks everyone for the help

[FatFork]

I wonder if there is anywhere decent to report addresses like this.

thanks everyone for the help

There is also Bitcoin Who's Who - Bitcoin Address Lookup. It is a free tool that allows public tagging of Bitcoin addresses, so it can help identify addresses from exchanges and other services. However, since the service relies on public input, it might not be up-to-date.

[Taskford]

The address 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC has two incoming transactions (not gonna focus on incoming transactions) and two outgoing transactions [1] and [2]

In [1], inputs from 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC and 3Fr6SNzrg6KwPYS1kARXGWsFiaRp6C26wK is used to send it to bc1qygm2x3l2wenpp2370wx8sc2g6h8hktlu9kxyyt . So definitely whoever owns 3Fr6S... also owns 35aUq... and looking at the 3Fr6SN ... on walletexplorer it shows a part of wallet : https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00007b2c068135bf/addresses and the wallet has around 19,000 addresses so it is for certain that it is an exchange or a service likely and not any individual operating that address. ^(a)

Now just need to look into transactions where the funds end to or gets linked to some hot wallet of some exchange.

Yes, im afraid it could also be gambling as well.

I wonder if there is anywhere decent to report addresses like this.

thanks everyone for the help

I think you cannot do anything if the funds has been transfer somewhere since in the first place you cannot trace the real identity of the owner and as far as I know even the platform will not help you recover your funds so I think you should start to move on right now since its not really worth to get stress on the past incident happened and better learn with this mistake. Many scam victim before seeking the same solution but I think none of them recover their funds from anonymous hacker yet.

[shasan]

Scammed funds start here at this address: 35aUqvvc6YJwFTAp8HqXLfadbuzL4uDrCC

Some funds may have ended here?: 3JYK4dnzDnjZUqTomj1rANnxZYxnyEtjNi

Anyway to find more information or to do anything about it?

Both address is on same exchange site or is on same gambling site while they have right now 23,556 wallet address base on https://www.walletexplorer.com/ There might have few more address which may still not yet updated. But it cant be a personal wallet as it is too many address.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Right now you might not able to pick up enough information that can link the said address to an exchange.

explorer.bitquery.io and oxt.me haven't labelled the addresses yet, which they usually do especially for common exchanges. Given the activity in the clustered address, it definitely means the funds were sent to an exchange which hasn't been linked yet