At Lionsgate Network, we deal with victims of some very sophisticated and very emotionally damaging scams. We’ve worked with victims of romance frauds that take their heart and money, and elaborate crypto scams that can ruin entire families. We know how horrible it can be for victims to hang on to false hope — believing that perhaps, just perhaps the scammer will return their money, or that the “relationship” they built online, was not a sham. However, there comes a day in every case when we need to deal with the sad facts: that scam is dead. In crypto scam recovery, we refer to it as “calling the time of death on a scammer.”
Why Is It So Hard?
Scammers are incredibly talented emotional manipulators. They know how to keep victims strung along, planting seeds of doubt with every “just one more payment,” “just trust me.” At Lionsgate Network we have witnessed this time and time again. Even once our forensic teams have tracked the stolen funds and confirmed the scam has ended, victims often refuse to accept it is final.
“Scammers not only use our wallets, but our deepest human needs: love, belonging, and hope,” says Bezalel Raviv, CEO of Lionsgate Network. “That is why the time of death for the scammer is not just a financial decision. It is an emotional decision.”
Why Is It So Necessary?
Determining the time of death is not an end, it is a reclaiming of our power. It is the moment victims shift from being passive vessels of a fraud to being active agents of recovering from it. At Lionsgate Network, it is the moment we are there to help them with real forensic tracing, law enforcement work and prevention.
“When victims acknowledge the scam stopped with them, Raviv went on to say, they can continue the journey of getting their life back, it is at that point we can actually help them by showing them where their money went, different/intermediaries who took it and the fight to recover it.”
A Ritual of Closure
For some, calling the time of death means sending that last message to the scammer: “I know this is a scam. I’m done” For others, it may be reporting the case to authorities, sending us evidence so we can trace the stolen funds. Here at Lionsgate Network, we feel this is a ritual of closure; a necessary part of breaking the psychological hold that fraudsters hold over people.
Claiming Reality Back
Scammers not only steal money; they steal reality. They destroy trust, warp reality and crush confidence. Calling time of death is your one way to get your time back, which is what we refer to as grounding and honouring your situation. At Lionsgate Network we align with each and every victim. The victim who is brave enough to say: “enough”. Not only do we assist in the recovery of stolen money through specialized crypto recovery services but, more importantly, we assist victims in answering the question “how do I get my confidence back, and trust in this world” To paraphrase Raviv “Calling time of death on a scammer is NOT giving up, its taking back your power” .So let’s be brave, and call time of death together, and not let the lies win!
