Reporting guides · Singapore
This guide is for the first hours and days after cryptocurrency is stolen — a drained wallet, a fake investment platform that stopped paying out, a signature you were tricked into. It tells you what actually helps, in the order that matters, with the official channels for Singapore and none of the false hope. It is general information, not legal advice; for your own situation, consult a lawyer where you live.
Stolen stablecoins (USDT, USDC) can be frozen by their issuers — but in practice freezes happen in the first days and almost never later, because thieves swap or move funds fast precisely to beat them. Roughly 95% of stolen stablecoins are moved on within 90 days. So the order of operations is: secure what is left, report fast to create a reference number, and notify the services that can actually stop funds — the exchange the money reached, and the stablecoin's issuer. Analysis and paperwork can be perfected later; the clock cannot be rewound.
Many thefts keep paying the thief after the first hit. If you signed something on a malicious site, token approvals or a wallet delegation may still be active — anything you add to that wallet later can be swept too. Check the compromised wallet for live approvals and delegations and revoke them from your own wallet, move remaining assets to a fresh wallet whose seed phrase has never touched the compromised device, and if a seed phrase or password may have leaked, treat the device itself as suspect before typing a new one on it. TraceHunt's free scan flags active delegations, and the approvals tool shows exactly what is still authorised, with one-click revoke.
Reporting routes differ by country, and sending a victim to the wrong agency costs the days that matter most. The channels below are the official, free routes for Singapore, checked against the live sites on 2026-09-09.
Lodge a police report online through the SPF e-services portal.
Government scam resource and helpline (1799), and guidance on what to include in a police report.
If the trace shows funds reaching an exchange, write to that exchange's compliance or law-enforcement team — not general support — asking for preservation of records and a review of the receiving account, quoting your reference number, the addresses and the transaction hashes. If the stolen asset was USDT or USDC and is still sitting in the thief's wallets, the issuer (Tether or Circle) can freeze it at contract level on a valid law-enforcement request; that is the single mechanism in crypto that stops funds without a court order, and it is another reason the police report comes first. And if the money left through your own bank or a regulated platform, notify them in writing promptly — some consumer protections are time-limited.
A report that gets acted on is specific and verifiable: your wallet address; every transaction hash of the theft; the addresses the funds went to; dates and times with time zone; how the theft happened (what you clicked, signed or installed, with the site or app name); screenshots of any conversation with the scammer; and, if you have one, a tracing report showing where the funds ended up. Full, untruncated addresses and hashes — one wrong character voids the row. This is exactly the evidence file a TraceHunt report produces, as a court-ready PDF plus spreadsheets a police analyst can work with directly.
Tether and Circle can freeze stolen stablecoins at contract level, and their blacklists are public. Our free freeze checker reads them live for any address on Ethereum and TRON — worth running on every address in your case, and worth re-running after your report is filed, because freezes often land days later.
Around 5% of stolen cryptocurrency is ever recovered, and recoveries that do happen go through custodians, issuers, police and courts — not through anyone who messaged you first. Speed of the first report is the factor most within your control. Tracing does not recover funds; it produces the record that lets the parties with real power act, it supports insurance and tax-loss claims, and it ends the doubt about what actually happened, which is worth something in itself.
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