- Service Areas / Access & Identity
Romance Fraud
Money sent to someone you were in a relationship with. Traced discreetly, without anyone else needing to know.
- Access & Identity
How These Cases Unfold
The pattern is consistent enough that we can usually tell you what to expect before you finish explaining.
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It Rarely Starts With Money
The first weeks or months involve no money at all. That’s the part that makes these cases difficult to see from the inside and easy to judge from the outside — by the time anything is asked for, there’s a real relationship behind the request.
The requests usually continue after the money stops. So does the contact.
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What an Investigation Involves
Astronreturn Investigations
We start with the payments rather than the person. Every transfer, wherever it went — bank accounts, money transfer services, gift cards, digital currency — and wherever it went next. Long sequences are ordinary here; we’re used to reconstructing them from partial records.
You receive a written record of where the money went, what we could establish about who received it, and what can realistically be done next. Nothing is published, and nothing is shared with anyone you haven’t asked us to contact.
- Inside an Investigation
Our Process
Four stages, in the order we work them.
Discreet Intake
One named contact. No case details shared with anyone without your say-so.
Full Payment History
Every transfer reconstructed, including ones you may not have recorded.
Identity Investigation
Who received the money, what accounts they used, and what connects them.
Evidence File
Documented for your bank, the police, or a solicitor — whichever you choose.
- Clients
In their own words
“I’d told nobody. Two years of it. The first call was the first time I’d said any of it out loud, and it was handled like a normal Tuesday.”
M.R
United Kingdom
4.9 Rating
aveery davis
Our Client
"My daughter found them and made me call. I expected a lecture. I got questions about dates and account numbers instead."
- FAQ
Common Questions
Yes. A good number of the people who contact us aren't sure, and finding out is straightforward — where the money went, and whether the accounts receiving it behave like a person's or like a network's. If the answer is that everything is as you were told, that's a useful thing to know too.
Not through us. Cases are handled by one named contact, details are never published or used in marketing, and we only approach a bank, the police, or anyone else at your instruction. This applies whether or not you decide to go ahead after the assessment.
No. Payments made under deception are treated differently from ordinary ones, and there are established routes for pursuing them — through your bank, through the payment provider, and in some jurisdictions through specific reimbursement schemes. What matters is how well the deception is documented, which is the part we handle.
Usually more than people expect. Older transfers are harder, but banks and payment providers keep records well beyond the point most people assume, and long cases have an advantage — a large number of payments produces a much clearer pattern than a single one does.
Don't block them yet, and don't confront them. Both make the investigation harder — ongoing contact sometimes produces useful information, and a confrontation tends to end with accounts being closed. Tell us at the assessment and we'll advise on timing.