Lets say for example you pay someone for a product or service 1,5 btc and he scams you? what can you do about it? can you find his location his name etc?
Also you send the btc to his exchange account(witch is not Kyc). If he turnes that btc into monero its over!?
Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous. You can follow the unspent outputs, and if (at one point) an address linked to an exchange or service with mandatory KYC is funded, you have a (very small) chance of recovering your funds.
Offcourse, as soon as the funds have moved a couple of times, there's a small chance of finding the real culprit but instead you'll find an innocent person that just got payed by an unspent output that could once be linked to a crime.
There are a couple of things you can do if you get scammed tough:
- Go to the police, at least they'll be able to gather some statistics and maybe if they ever crack down a huge scam network they might be able to recover your funds
- Follow the unspent outputs and check walletexplorer if one of the funded addresses is ever from a KYC mandatory service. Maybe you won't find the culprit, but odds are you'll end up with somebody that did business with the culprit. Offcourse, if a mixing service of some sorts is used, your trail ends
- Depending on the mode in which you were scammed, it might be possible to get to the ip or account of the scammer... Bitcointalk and other fora/services keeps ip logs, domain names need to be registered, chat applications need to be downloaded or connected to a central server,... All of these things can be faked/hidden tough
You're also right about monero. Once BTC gets exchanged for a privacy coin, you're more or less out of options...
Maybe it's a good idear to tell us what happened exactly, it's kind of hard to give advice without knowing the exact story...
