Sample case · E.D.N.C. 5:24-cv-00634
One real DOJ case,
traced blind.
A pig-butchering scam posing as the Bitkan exchange. Everything on this page is public: the court filing and the blockchain. Hound saw only the victim’s transfers and data from before the first freeze.
What the victim had
Seven USDT withdrawals from their Crypto.com account to the scam’s deposit address, February to April 2023. That is all Hound started from.
Cut-off: Ethereum block 19,673,401 (April 2024), before Tether’s first freeze. Tether’s freeze list was hidden from Hound.
Where the money went
Hound followed every hop out of the scam address under two accounting rules (first-in-first-out and last-in-first-out): 89 wallets, 4 to 8 hops deep. The diagram shows the four main branches; each hides 2 to 6 more wallets.
What Hound handed over
Fifteen leads, ranked. Wallets still holding the victim’s money first, then exchange deposit addresses where a records request can identify the account holder.
Amounts are the victim’s money Hound attributes to each wallet, under whichever accounting rule reached it. *Wallet F holds money DOJ traced to a second victim, so it is a real seizure but not this victim’s funds.
Checked against DOJ
Where the FBI traced this victim’s money to a seized wallet, Hound’s amounts land on theirs.
What Hound missed, and why
DOJ filed this forfeiture complaint in November 2024, 21 months after the first transfer. Source: United States v. 4,992,845.06 USDT, E.D.N.C. 5:24-cv-00634, FBI declaration (Dkt. 1-1).