"Better one hazel grouse in the bag than ten on a branch."
The scammer promised ten birds on the branch. We help you hold on to what is real. EthGuardians is a blockchain intelligence firm registered in Hong Kong SAR, serving clients across Finland in English and Finnish.
Crypto fraud in Finland is reported to the Poliisi, the Finnish police. You can file a police report online at poliisi.fi, and the service works in Finnish, Swedish, and English. File the report even if the case feels embarrassing. The report number matters later: it shows you acted in good faith, and banks and exchanges ask for it when records are requested.
Finanssivalvonta, the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA), publishes warnings about unlicensed investment platforms and crypto services. Before you trust a platform, check its name against the FIN-FSA warning list. If the platform has no licence to operate, it is almost always a scam. Cryptocurrency is legal in Finland and Vero, the Finnish Tax Administration, taxes crypto gains, but the law cannot protect you from a fake platform.
A typical Finnish case starts with a social media ad or a WhatsApp or Telegram group where a Finnish-speaking investment adviser presents a trading platform. The platform looks Finnish, customer support answers in Finnish, and a first small withdrawal succeeds. Once the balance grows, withdrawals are suddenly blocked by taxes and activation fees. A second common pattern is the phone scam: the caller claims to represent your bank or the police and asks you to install remote access software.
Vero treats cryptocurrencies as property, and a fraud victim may have tax questions that are worth checking with the Tax Administration. Most cases reach us from Helsinki, Espoo, and Tampere, but we serve all of Finland, from Oulu to Turku. In a high-trust society, being scammed feels like a personal failure, and shame is the biggest barrier to reporting. It should not be. These operations are professional crime, and their victims include engineers, doctors, and pensioners. The only real mistake is waiting.
If you suspect a platform is not genuine, do not deposit more. Save every transaction hash, wallet address, email, and chat log. Delete nothing, not even the embarrassing messages: they are evidence of the scammer's method. Then file the police report and submit your case to us for assessment. Tracing should start quickly, because funds often reach an exchange within days.
File a police report online at poliisi.fi. The service works in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Keep the report number.
Check the platform name against the FIN-FSA warning list. An unlicensed operator is almost always a scam.
Most cases reach us from Helsinki, Espoo, and Tampere, but we serve all of Finland.
We use blockchain forensics and Ethereum smart contracts to trace, freeze, and recover your digital assets from any type of fraud.
Our structured four-step process combines blockchain forensics with legal action.
We never promise outcomes. We tell you in advance what the realistic chances are for each fraud type.
We never ask for your seed phrase, private keys, two-factor codes, remote access to your device, or any upfront payment. Anyone who asks for these in our name is an impersonator.
The following testimonials represent verified client experiences. All names are anonymised to protect client privacy.
Helsinki, Finland • March 2025
"I lost €41,000 to a trading platform advertised in Finnish on Facebook. The police report went nowhere. EthGuardians traced the funds to an exchange within three weeks, and I got €38,900 back."
Tampere, Finland • October 2025
"A romance scammer convinced me to send €18,700 in bitcoin. I felt ashamed for months. The EthGuardians team treated me with respect and traced the transfers across several wallets. I recovered €16,400."
The case review is free. You receive a written assessment and a fixed fee proposal before we start. We charge only if recovered funds reach you. Recovery can never be guaranteed, and any firm that promises it is not being honest.
Never. We also never ask for two-factor codes or remote access to your device. If someone asks for these in the name of EthGuardians, it is an impersonator. Report it to us and to the Poliisi.
File a police report online at poliisi.fi. The service works in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Attach transaction hashes, wallet addresses, and chat logs. Keep the report number: you will need it when records are requested from exchanges. Also check the FIN-FSA warning list.
Tracing typically takes from a few days to a few weeks. Legal action and exchange cooperation often take months. Simple cases resolve faster, complex chains slower. We give you a realistic timeline in the written assessment.
The assessment itself costs nothing. If we take your case, we agree the fee in writing in advance. The fee is paid only from recovered funds. If nothing is recovered, you pay nothing.
Not necessarily. The blockchain does not forget: every transaction is still on the public ledger. Delay makes freezing harder, so file the police report and submit your case to us as soon as you can.
