A recovery crew has been reported posing as partners of Cotswold Barristers and steering victims to poefo.com, a wallet-style site, for a cut around fifteen percent of funds supposedly saved from earlier scams. Contact numbers and first-name “lawyers” arrive in chat; the urgency is familiar.
Real barristers’ chambers do not collect rescue percentages through obscure web wallets. Name-dropping a UK practice is social proof you must verify on the firm’s own domain and phone switchboard — numbers you look up yourself, not ones pasted beside a crypto address. Percentage-of-recovery fees paid up front or into a stranger’s wallet are a hallmark of fake-recovery fraud.
Do not send coins to poefo.com or similar. Check any law-firm claim independently, keep evidence from the original loss, and use Fake recovery guidance before you hire anyone who cold-contacted you about it.
If this sounds familiar, start at Get help. If someone is already selling a paid “fix”, read Fake recovery before you send another fee.
This article is for general information only. It is not legal or financial advice. Details change. If you have lost money, contact your bank or card issuer and use the routes on the help pages.