I really don’t mind paying for it as long as I can get my funds back, the private investigator was just someone hired from fiverr that conducted the trace of the final destination address. They have no power in contacting the exchange.
If the scammers already moved your coins out of the exchange, it might be too late to recover them. This should serve as a warning to you and many others. Only use secure wallets trust wallet is unsafe.
I would take that a step further and advise everyone to stay away from Ethereum altogether, where 90% or more of all crypto hacks have always occurred.
The author of the Bitcoin Standard said 'Ethereum is the mother asshole from which the shitcoins spring.'
Cointelegraph: Ethereum’s ERC-20 design flaws are a crypto scammer’s best friendThe ERC-20 token standard enables scammers to shooting phish in a barrel.
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/phishing-crypto-erc-20-bait-scammers/James O'Keefe Exposes Ethereumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPJDwW1so_s