From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Deposit confirmations from the claimant to Close Option’s receiving wallet at closeoption.com.
• 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.

Off-ramp map — where the funds left the chain:

• Close Option off-ramps consistently to centralised exchanges — Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini appear less often than the offshore venues; the casefile names the actual endpoint.
• The Close Option off-ramp address is matched to known compliance feeds — the Professor’s standing dataset plus chain-analytics references.
• Compliance leverage is applied at the named counterparty for Close Option — the packet meets the off-ramp’s published compliance standard.
• When the Close Option off-ramp does not respond, escalation runs through IC3 (for US claimants), state AG, and (above a dollar threshold) civil-discovery overlay.

The Professor’s recovery note for Close Option:

1. Casefile review on Close Option — reading the submission against the no-go list.
2. Trace mapping on Close Option — pathway documented to chain-of-custody standard.
3. Off-ramp naming on Close Option — exchange endpoint identified.
4. Packet filing on Close Option — to the named off-ramp, IC3, state AG; civil discovery overlay as applicable.
5. Documented follow-through on Close Option.

What the Professor tracks across Close Option casefiles:

• Chains in scope for Close Option — the chains that handle the volume of casefile activity in this segment (BTC, ETH, Tron, BSC, plus L2s).
• Off-ramps in scope for Close Option — named centralised exchanges with compliance leverage.
• Filings supported on Close Option — IC3, state AG, off-ramp desk, civil discovery as applicable.

What the Professor will never do — by policy:

• Recovery scammers do these things on Close Option; the Professor never does — request seed phrases.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Close Option; the Professor never does — request remote logins.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Close Option; the Professor never does — demand upfront cash.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Close Option; the Professor never does — guarantee a recovery.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Close Option; the Professor never does — call you unsolicited.