Contact Crypto Maryland
One email address, read by a person. We answer corrections first, then everything else. If you have been defrauded, the authorities with actual jurisdiction are listed further down this page.
- Corrections are handled before anything else in the inbox
- We cannot give financial, tax or legal advice, or recover stolen crypto
- Maryland and federal fraud reporting routes are listed below
CEX.IO is legal to use in Maryland. It is registered with FinCEN as a Money Services Business and holds a Maryland money transmitter licence, NMLS ID 1804170.
Reviewed and updated August 2026
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What we can help with
Corrections. If a figure, a date, a legal citation or a description is wrong, tell us. We would rather be corrected than leave an error on a page somebody is relying on. These get answered first.
Missing coverage. If your Maryland town or county is not covered and you think it should be, say so. We prioritise by what people actually ask for.
Press and research. We are happy to talk to journalists and researchers working on Maryland crypto policy, kiosk regulation or consumer fraud.
General questions about how something on the site works. We will point you at the right page or the right authoritative source.
What we cannot help with
We are not advisers and we cannot recover funds
We cannot give you financial, investment, tax or legal advice, recommend what to buy, tell you whether an investment is right for you, or help recover cryptocurrency lost to a scam. Nobody can do that last one — anyone who contacts you offering recovery services for a fee is running a second fraud on the same victim.
We also cannot access your exchange account, resolve a dispute with a platform, or intervene with a kiosk operator. Those routes are set out below.
Where to report crypto fraud in Maryland
These are the authorities with actual jurisdiction. Report to all that apply — patterns are built from individual reports.
| Authority | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Maryland Office of Financial Regulation | Money transmitter licensing, virtual currency kiosk registration, kiosk fees and receipts, refusal to refund, unregistered machines |
| Maryland Attorney General — Consumer Protection Division | Scams, deceptive trade practices, misrepresentation |
| Maryland Attorney General — Securities Division | Investment fraud, unregistered advisers, token schemes, affinity fraud. Also where you check whether someone is registered before investing |
| Your county police or sheriff | The local criminal report |
| FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | The federal record. Feeds national pattern analysis and is how multi-victim cases get built |
| Federal Trade Commission | Gift card fraud, imposter scams and general consumer fraud reporting |
If a Maryland crypto kiosk was involved, file a Notice of Fraud with the operator within 90 days. State regulation requires them to investigate within 30 calendar days, bars them from requiring a police report as a precondition, and bars them from denying a fee refund because you ignored the on-screen warnings. Keep the receipt — it carries the transaction hash, which is the single most useful item an investigator can have. Our scam guide sets out what to do in the first hour.
Verifying a company yourself
Before you deposit anywhere, search the company on NMLS Consumer Access and confirm Maryland appears in its licence list with an active status. It is free, public and takes under a minute. It will not tell you whether a platform is well run, but it eliminates the entire category of businesses operating outside the law — which is where the worst outcomes live.