Routes to your crypto

The ways criminals actually get to people's crypto, step by step, checked against your answers. A route is open when nothing you do stops it. One blocked step is enough to close it.

Area by area

What you're already doing well, and what to fix, in each part of your security.

Your fix plan

Do these in order. Each one raises your score, and the first few make the biggest difference. Times are rough guides.

Scam field guide

The scams aimed at UK crypto owners, with how exposed your answers make you to each one, and the latest published figures.

If something goes wrong

1. Stop and don't send anything more

   Don't pay any "fee", "tax" or "release charge" to get money back. That's always part of the scam.

   First minutes
2. Move what's left

   If a wallet's recovery phrase may have been seen, set up a new wallet with a new phrase on a device you trust, and move everything left into it. If an exchange login was taken, contact the exchange through its app and change your email password first.

   First hour
3. Tell your bank

   If you paid by card or bank transfer, call the number on the back of your card. Banks can sometimes stop or recover payments.

   Same day
4. Report it

   Report it to the police through the UK's national fraud reporting service, or Police Scotland on 101. Keep screenshots, addresses and transaction IDs.

   Same day
5. Beware of "recovery" offers

   People who lose crypto are targeted again by fake recovery firms and fake police. Nobody can reverse a blockchain payment for a fee.

   Afterwards

Your yearly security check

Security slips over time. Tick these off through the year, then take the check-up again.

General information only, not financial, legal or security advice for your situation. WalletLegacy never asks for recovery phrases, private keys or passwords.