Xausdn.com Scam — How I Got Back My Stolen Cryptocurrency 

My wife passed away in 2025 after a long battle with cancer. After she died, I sold the majority of my business interest and entered retirement. Retirement, as it turned out, was mostly silence. My children lived in different states, and my friends were busy with work. That’s what led me to spending more time online. Eventually I met a beautiful, young and interesting woman called Sophia.

The first message arrived on Facebook after she commented on a photo of my fishing trip in Montana. From her pictures she was an Asian-American woman in her early thirties. 

We exchanged messages daily for three weeks, talking about life, I told her about my wife and she shared in my grief later on she suggested we move our conversation to WhatsApp. 

Taking to Sophia became part of my daily routine. We exchanged voice messages every morning, and she sent photos and videos of her life. When she learned about my construction career, she asked intelligent, respectful questions about my work. I felt a sense of connection I hadn’t felt since my wife died. I began imagining a future that didn't feel entirely empty. 

That’s when the topic of investing started.

Sophia mentioned she had completed a successful investment on Xausdn.com involving digital assets. When I admitted my ignorance regarding cryptocurrency, she educated me sending me articles and videos from reputable platforms like Fox News and CNN.

She suggested I try with a "very small amount" since I was new and skeptical about it. 

Out of curiosity I deposited $2,000 into Xausdn from the Kraken account Sophia helped create.

In just two weeks, my balance grew from $2,000 to  $13,400. To test the system, I withdrew $4,000 without Sophia knowing, and the money arrived in my bank account two days later. That single transaction convinced me.

My relationship with Sophia grew and we discussed travel plans to eventually meet in person, she encouraged me to go larger. So I transferred $35,000 from my 401k. In a month I had made over $400,000 but when I attempted to withdraw more. The request stayed pending, and I received a message stating my account was flagged. They demanded a fee of $10,000 to unlock the funds.

When I refused, the customer support team turned aggressive. 

Sophia, who was usually calm became aggressive as well insisting I pay to avoid losing everything. For the first time in weeks, I stopped listening to her and decided to do my own research.

I found lots of stories from people in my exact position who had been targeted by this same script called "pig-butchering”.  I stopped communicating with Sophia immediately. Within a day or two Sophia’s social media presence vanished.

I felt foolish and ashamed. However, my daughter encouraged me to stop blaming myself - there may be a way to get the money back.

I thought to myself since banks offer chargeback services then a service like that should exist for cryptocurrency. 

Together, we gathered every bank record, transaction hash, and chat log I had with Xausdn.

During our research, we learned that while cryptocurrency transactions are difficult to reverse, they create permanent, public records. We discovered CipherTrace a crypto chargeback service owned by Mastercard.

After submitting my information to CipherTrace on - www.theciphertrace.com, I wasn't sure whether anything would come of it. Then I received a text from one of their investigators. What I thought would be a brief conversation turned into a detailed discussion about the transactions that had originated from my wallet to the scammers wallet.

For the first time since the scam occurred, someone was able to explain the likely path my funds had taken after they disappeared. That conversation gave me both clarity and a sense of direction. I continued sending documents and transaction records as requested. Thanks to the information I had gathered and shared with them all my funds were eventually recovered.