What we investigate — three views, one methodology

Evidence-backed findings - check what important claims are based on. Crypto and traditional business checks - look beyond tokens, companies, and business offers. Clear risk signals - learn what we found, why it may matter, and what we could not confirm.

Modern schemes rarely live on-chain only. More and more targets show a split-asset pattern: a crypto project on one side, a traditional corporate structure on the other, intertwined. We investigate both sides to the same evidence-tiered standard — source-levelled claims, a Decision/Exposure Matrix, Confidence % and Evidence Coverage %, and a reproducible source chain.

What makes us different: every red flag published with its source and evidence tier, on-chain receipts, and a named human editor. No hype.

A classic illustration of the split-asset pattern outside crypto: a listed company whose market value rests largely on Bitcoin reserves (the MicroStrategy-type setup) — a company view alone or a token view alone each tell only half the story.

Crypto project due diligence — the core product

Tokens, validator-node offers, “passive income” programs. Free sourced Quick Scan, Full Dossier with lineage and comp-plan analysis, and continuous monitoring. This is the product you see on this page — unchanged.

What we actually check →  ·  See a full public example report — no signup →

Business entity (KYB) investigation

Companies, shell structures, partners — investigated on demand, with a KYB/UBO/sanctions focus: official company registries, ownership and UBO structure, sanctions & PEP screening (planned), litigation and regulatory traces, reputation footprint.

  • Decision/Exposure Matrix up front — regulator warnings, licences, UBO transparency, sanctions/PEP (planned), proven fraud, real product, sustainable revenue, activity — each answered red/green with sources.
  • Confidence % + Evidence Coverage % next to every verdict — risk and certainty are not the same thing, so we report both.
  • Structural data gaps declared, never papered over. Some legal forms (e.g. certain LLP registries) do not publish owners by law — we say so up front; that is a property of the jurisdiction, not a gap in the research.
  • Zero reputation ≠ clean slate. A young entity with no independent coverage is reported as “no independent confirmation, no track record” — never as “reputable”.

Scope and Limitations

What this service covers (in scope):

  • Company registration data, legal ownership structure (UBO); sanctions and PEP screening (planned) — from public lists
  • Regulatory actions, litigation records, and adverse media — publicly available sources only
  • On-chain transaction analysis, smart contract review, token holder concentration — publicly available blockchain data
  • Professional background of project teams and company representatives — in their business capacity only

What this service does NOT cover (out of scope):

  • No private surveillance. Our investigations cover business entities and their representatives exclusively in their professional/business capacity. We do not monitor, profile, or investigate natural persons for private purposes.
  • No scam recovery. We do not recover funds lost to fraud, scams, or any other scheme. Any service claiming to do so on our behalf is fraudulent.
  • No guarantee of findings. No report guarantees the identification of all risks, red flags, or fraudulent activity. Our findings are based on publicly available information at the time of delivery and may be incomplete or change after delivery.
  • Not financial, investment, or legal advice. Reports are for informational purposes only. They do not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice, and must not be relied upon as such.
  • No credit scoring. We do not provide creditworthiness assessments or credit scores (a regulated activity).
  • No non-public data. We do not use hacked, leaked, or otherwise non-publicly-available data.

Data protection (GDPR): Where reports include personal data of individuals acting in a business capacity (e.g., company directors, UBO information from public registries), the legal basis is legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) for B2B due diligence purposes. Only publicly available sources are used. Data subjects have the right to access, rectification, erasure (where applicable under GDPR), restriction of processing, and to object to processing; submit data subject requests to [email protected] (if the linked address does not display: help [at] proofofscam [dot] com). This service does not process special category data and does not conduct surveillance of private individuals.