From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Deposit confirmations from the claimant to HOB’s receiving wallet at hob.ltd.
• Forwarding-wallet pathway documented hop-by-hop with chain-of-custody hashes.
• Cross-chain bridge transactions where the operator routed value out of the deposit chain.
• Mixer or coin-join interactions, where applicable.
• Final off-ramp at a centralised exchange — the compliance counterparty named in the recovery filing.

From the lectern — off-ramp identification:

• HOB’s off-ramp endpoint, in this casefile, is the centralised exchange that holds compliance leverage — typically named in the packet alongside the deposit address.
• Chain-analytics datasets cross-reference the HOB off-ramp wallet against historical laundering throughput.
• The HOB packet is delivered to the off-ramp compliance desk in a format the desk’s reviewers act on.
• Escalation pathways for HOB, where needed: IC3, the relevant state AG, and a civil-discovery overlay for KYC on the off-ramp wallet.

The Professor’s recovery note for HOB:

1. Triage on HOB — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on HOB — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on HOB — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the HOB packet — IC3, state AG (where loss meets state thresholds), off-ramp compliance desk, and civil-discovery overlay where dollar value supports it.
5. Follow-through on HOB — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

Chains and off-ramps the Professor follows:

• Deposit-side chains in HOB casefiles — typically the major chains (BTC, ETH) and the high-throughput stablecoin chains (Tron USDT, BSC USDT) — with bridge crossings noted.
• Off-ramps named in HOB packets — centralised exchanges that accept regulator-grade compliance filings.
• Filing options on HOB — IC3 (US), state AG, off-ramp compliance desk, civil-discovery KYC where the dollar value warrants it.

Recovery scammers do these things; the Professor never does:

• Hard line on HOB — no seed-phrase requests, period.
• Hard line on HOB — no remote logins requested.
• Hard line on HOB — no upfront cash retainer.
• Hard line on HOB — no guarantee language.
• Hard line on HOB — no unsolicited phone outreach.