The account recovery space attracts predators because the victims are pre-qualified. You have already lost something valuable, you already know you need help, and you are already willing to pay. A scammer does not have to convince you of anything — they only have to appear before someone honest does.
Here is how to tell the difference. These signals apply to any service, including ours.
1. They ask for your password
This is the end of the conversation. There is no legitimate recovery method that requires your password, your login code, your 2FA backup codes, or a session token. None. A real case is built from evidence you already hold — screenshots, emails, ID, proof of ownership — not from access to the account.
What they actually do with the password varies: take over what is left of your account, harvest the same credentials for your email and bank, or use your account to run the identical scam on your followers.
2. They guarantee the outcome
"100% guaranteed unban." "We always get it back." The final decision belongs to the platform, always. Anyone promising certainty is either lying or planning to blame you when it fails. An honest service gives you odds and a reasoned opinion, not a guarantee.
3. Payment comes before assessment
Legitimate services look at your case first and quote afterwards. Demanding money up front — especially before anyone has asked what actually happened — means the money is the product, not the recovery.
Payment method is a signal too. Crypto, gift cards, and transfers to a private individual all exist for one reason: they cannot be reversed.
4. They claim an "insider panel" or a contact who can just flip a switch
This one is worth a paragraph, because it sells so well. The pitch is that they know someone inside Meta or TikTok who can lift the ban directly.
Real escalation goes through legal and policy channels, is documented, and takes days. Anything described as a secret panel, a "friend at Meta", or a paid contact is either fiction or, if it were real, corruption — and an account restored that way is reversible the moment someone audits it. Be sceptical of this claim even when a service otherwise looks professional.
5. There is no company behind it
Check for a registered company name, a registration number, a physical address, terms of service, a privacy policy, and a named human being. Their absence is not sloppiness — it is deliberate, because there must be nothing to sue and nothing to trace.
6. Contact happens only in DMs
Instagram DM, WhatsApp, Telegram. Disposable channels with no paper trail, chosen so the account can vanish and reappear under a new name next week. A real firm has a domain, an email address on that domain, and correspondence you can keep.
7. They found you
You posted about losing your account, and within an hour three accounts replied offering help. Sometimes the "helper" is connected to whoever took your account in the first place. Never engage with unsolicited recovery offers — approach services you found and verified yourself.
8. Urgency you did not create
"The deletion window closes in 24 hours." "Only two slots left today." Manufactured deadlines exist to stop you checking. Real deadlines exist too — some platforms do purge disabled accounts after a period — but a legitimate service explains the actual policy rather than using a countdown as a closing technique.
If you have already paid a scammer
- Stop all contact. Do not pay a second time to "unlock" the first payment — that is a standard follow-up scam.
- Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask about a chargeback. Card payments are often recoverable; crypto and gift cards essentially never are.
- Change the passwords on every account that shared credentials with the compromised one, starting with your email.
- Report it to the police and to your country's cybercrime reporting body. A case number is often useful later in correspondence with the platform.
- Keep every message and receipt. It becomes evidence.
How to verify us specifically
Apply the same test to Veyronplug. We only contact you from an @veyronplug.com address. We never open a case through a DM. We never ask for a password or a 2FA code, at any stage. We assess before we quote, and we quote before you pay. If anything claiming to be us breaks one of those rules, it is not us.