From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Claimant-to-platform deposit transactions on the deposit chain used by FXECM.
• Operator-controlled forwarding wallets where deposits consolidate ahead of laundering or off-ramping.
• Cross-chain bridge events to chains with deeper exchange liquidity.
• Privacy-service interactions, where present in the trail.
• Off-ramp wallet — the named centralised-exchange endpoint.

The annotation continues — off-ramp endpoint:

• Off-ramp endpoint for FXECM resolves to a named centralised counterparty — the venue varies casefile to casefile, but the resolution always names a real exchange wallet.
• FXECM’s off-ramp address is matched against the Professor’s compliance feed and against external chain-analytics datasets.
• The compliance packet for FXECM is structured the way an off-ramp compliance reviewer expects to receive evidence — header, hashes, narrative, ask.
• If the FXECM off-ramp counterparty does not respond inside the published window, escalation routes through IC3, state AG, and civil discovery.

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

1. Casefile triage on FXECM — the submission is read; a written assessment is delivered.
2. Forensic trace on FXECM — every hop in the deposit pathway is captured and hashed.
3. Off-ramp identification — the FXECM endpoint is named.
4. Recovery filing on FXECM — packet delivered to IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, and civil discovery as applicable.
5. Continuing review of FXECM — the Professor follows the casefile until next-step documentation exists.

Chains and off-ramps the Professor follows:

• Chains tracked on FXECM — Bitcoin and Ethereum at the deposit side; Tron USDT-TRC20 and BSC at the consolidation side; bridges crossed where the operator chases liquidity.
• Off-ramps tracked on FXECM — named exchange counterparties with public compliance contacts.
• Filings supported on FXECM — IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, civil discovery — selected by the dollar value and the off-ramp’s responsiveness.

What is never asked of a claimant:

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