SkyHawk Assets: the “recovery firm” promising your crypto back, from another company’s address

👉 What you need to know…

• sky-hawkassets.com presents itself as a fund recovery firm, claiming blockchain tracing, asset freezing and international court orders.
• The Denver address it displays belongs to Asset Recovery, Inc., a Colorado company that helps people claim unclaimed property, and has nothing to do with this site.
• Its footer carries a different name from its header, “Aegis Forensic Recovery”: the site has clearly been rebranded in a hurry.
• The domain was registered on 20 July 2026. No company is named, no registration number appears, and there are no legal, terms or privacy pages.
• It is promoted through fake testimonials posted under scam-warning articles, never through an independent source.

A Denver address that belongs to another company

The footer lists a US address, “910 16th St Mall 624, Denver CO, 80202”, an email address (stefano@sky-hawkassets.com) and a phone number, +1 (618) 494-4090, which the site lists as a WhatsApp contact. They are exactly what a visitor wants to see before handing over personal information.

The address is identical to the one published by Asset Recovery, Inc. on its own website (assetrecoveryinc.com). It is a Colorado business that helps people recover unclaimed real estate funds across all fifty states, and it publishes a toll-free number and a verifiable office. Nothing suggests that it runs, hosts or sponsors SkyHawk Assets, and its line of work has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.

The area code raises another red flag: 618 belongs to southern Illinois, more than 900 miles from Denver. The number appears in no other public source.

The footer also carries a different name from the rest of the site: “© 2026 Aegis Forensic Recovery”, while the header, page titles and email address all say “SkyHawk Assets”. Two brands appear on the same page, which is a serious inconsistency for a firm claiming to handle international court orders.

The site names no company, provides no registration number and declares no registered office. The menu and footer link to four sections and an email address, and there is no legal notice, terms or privacy page reachable from the site.

$2.3 billion traced, and not a shred of proof

The homepage claims “$2.3B+ Capital Traced”, more than 100 jurisdictions and an average trace time of 48 hours. The “Capabilities” page promises “coordinated asset freezing orders” and describes its work as “built to strict evidentiary standards”. The “Process” page describes four phases, from collecting transaction hashes to what it calls “asset reclamation”.

None of these figures is backed by a document, a named client or a cited court decision. Freezing assets abroad requires a lawyer authorised to practise in the relevant jurisdiction, a competent court and a case number. The site shows none of that, and does not name a single lawyer.

The domain name was registered on 20 July 2026, less than four months ago. The site runs on a website builder. Its only email address uses the name “Stefano”. A search for the site’s name returns no press coverage, no Trustpilot profile and no independent review, only its own pages.

What the form asks you for

The contact form, labelled “Submit Secure Claim”, asks for your full name, email address and phone number. A “Claim Details” field then asks for your transaction history, wallet addresses and a timeline of your losses. The site says the data is hosted on “secure Swiss servers” but does not name any entity responsible for storing or processing it.

This is precisely the kind of information a victim should not hand to a stranger. Identity, phone number, wallet history and the amount lost make up a complete profile, reusable in a later scam attempt. The site does not publish any fees. The only contact option offered is a WhatsApp conversation.

The fake testimonial that recruits victims

On 9 November 2026, a comment signed “Henry” was posted under our article about Gainexo. Across four points, it tells a familiar story of loss and recovery: “I was at the end of my rope until I discovered Sky Hawk Assets. They recovered my crypto from Gainexo. No empty promises, just results.”

Two details give the method away. The fourth point of the comment is about the neighbour’s air conditioner “buzzing non-stop”, entirely unrelated to the subject. The text was assembled, not written. The claim itself does not hold up either: no intermediary can guarantee the return of cryptocurrency sent to a platform without a judicial investigation, and certainly not within weeks.

This is how these services recruit. There is no advertising, no press coverage and no review page. Testimonials are posted in the comments of articles about scams, where people who have already been scammed look for help. Over the last 120 days, 729 comments on Signal-Arnaques and 175 on ScamDoc mentioned fund recovery and pointed readers to a direct contact.

Red flags at a glance

What to do if someone offers to “recover” your money

The basic rule is simple: be suspicious of any recovery service that contacts you first or asks for payment upfront. If someone messages you, calls you or sends you a link promising to recover your funds for a fee, treat it as a recovery room, a follow-up scam aimed at people who have already lost money. Ignore it and report it.

⚠️ Beware of fake recovery agents. After a scam, fraudsters pose as law firms or fund recoverers. A genuine recovery service never contacts you first and never asks for an upfront fee: the victim is the one who starts the process.

If you have lost money in an investment scam, the first step has to come from you. Report it to the relevant authority in your country: the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) and the FBI’s IC3 (ic3.gov) in the United States, Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk) in the United Kingdom, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (antifraudcentre.ca) in Canada, and Scamwatch (scamwatch.gov.au) in Australia. Your bank or exchange may also have a fraud team that can act on a transfer.

You can also add your experience to the ScamDoc report page for sky-hawkassets.com, which gathers reports and gives a sense of how many victims there are: scamdoc.com/view/2808875.

Have you been contacted by a fake recovery service? Share your experience in the comments: it may help other victims avoid being scammed a second time.