Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Deposit transaction hashes from the claimant wallet to the IGI Markets platform receiving address.
• Forwarding wallets the platform consolidated through — typically two to four hops on the deposit chain (BTC / ETH / USDT-TRC20 / BSC / Polygon / Arbitrum / Optimism / Avalanche).
• Bridge crossings between chains, where the operator moves value into a chain with deeper liquidity ahead of the off-ramp.
• Mixer interactions — Tornado-Cash variants, Sinbad, and the smaller obfuscation services that operators rotate through under regulatory pressure.
• Final off-ramp wallet — the centralised exchange deposit address that received the consolidated funds.

The Professor’s off-ramp note:

• IGI Markets off-ramps consistently to centralised exchanges — Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini appear less often than the offshore venues; the casefile names the actual endpoint.
• The IGI Markets 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 IGI Markets — the packet meets the off-ramp’s published compliance standard.
• When the IGI Markets off-ramp does not respond, escalation runs through IC3 (for US claimants), state AG, and (above a dollar threshold) civil-discovery overlay.

Pathway to recovery — what happens after the trail is mapped:

1. Submission triage — IGI Markets casefile reviewed against the no-go list, written reply within one business day.
2. Pathway trace — IGI Markets deposit and forwarding wallets captured.
3. Endpoint identification — IGI Markets off-ramp wallet named.
4. Filing — IGI Markets packet delivered to IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, civil discovery as needed.
5. Ongoing follow — IGI Markets stays on file until a documented next step is reached.

What we read in a IGI Markets casefile:

• Chains the Professor reads for IGI Markets casefiles — BTC, ETH, Tron USDT, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, plus the cross-chain bridges that link them.
• Off-ramps named in IGI Markets — major centralised venues with compliance desks that accept regulator-grade packets.
• Filing pathways available on IGI Markets — IC3 for US claimants, state AG offices, off-ramp compliance, and civil-discovery overlay for high-value loss.

What the Professor will never do — by policy:

• What the Professor will not do on IGI Markets — ask for a seed phrase.
• What the Professor will not do on IGI Markets — request remote-access logins.
• What the Professor will not do on IGI Markets — demand cash up front.
• What the Professor will not do on IGI Markets — promise a guarantee.
• What the Professor will not do on IGI Markets — call you out of the blue.