Scam page screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/jzXxXTY/image.png
Proof: wwwww872489jdjjdwww.z13.web.core.windows.net - urlscan.io
Scam Number: +1-888-822-3331
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888-822-3331 Malechode Saturday 12-10-22 4:16PM EST
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He hung up immediately 
Scanner and Phone Provider from Delhi area.
Hemant Chand 888-822-3331
Hemant Chand from Delhi area is a scammer and also provides phone numbers to other scammers.
Knot Networks
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Do you, or anyone within the scambaiter community have contacts within the FBI who can bring an end to this?
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That is a simple question with a very long, complicated answer. Short answer: no. Long answer: CBI and FBI are today doing more about scam call centers than they ever have before. It is just a question of is it enough and is it directed in the most efficient way that will have the most impact?
For example, two years ago an AUSA on the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force called me up and asked me: is there anything Jim Browning is doing that we cannot do with [appropriate judicial] paper? I said no, one or two agents could make pop-up and call back numbers too dangerous to use by just doing what scambaiters already do: call a pop up number, dump them into a virtual machine, record everything, and wireshark the connection. Except, instead of then shouting into a bucket on YouTube, and FBI agent can send everything over the CBI the next day as a FDR (foreign dissemination report.) To the best of my knowledge, everyone in Federal law enforcement working on Indian call centers is a financial/white collar person. So they do what they know: go after US based money mules. Anytime someone on a cyber squad starts on an Indian call center, they get pulled off to work ransomware.
On the other hand, in 2015 all tech support fraud cases were funneled to one FBI cyber SSA in Nashville. This obviously didn’t work out well. In 2019, the industry sat down with the Attorney General and made three recommendations. 1.) Stop focusing only on people in the US: the bad guys are in India, India does not extradite, so you have to build cases for prosecutors in India to bring charges in Indian courts. (You saw the result of this October 4 with Operation Chakra.) 2.) Since this means no stat for a District AUSA, this has to be run out of Main Justice. (Barr then created the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force.) And 3.) We need an extra ALAT at the US embassy in New Delhi dedicated solely to scam cases. (This position was finally filled permanently June 8, 2022.)
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@A-TeamandT
Thanks for the detailed response. Why do you say “India does not extradite” ? US and India have signed an extradition treaty and there’s no Indian law preventing Indian nationals from being extradited.
Having said that, there are notorious players like Hemant Chand who keep showing up time and again and do nothing to hide their involvement - how are they not indicted ? How has FCC not revoked his Teleco license?
Knot Networks is United States based company headquartered in Delaware. and this company not belong to a particular person. there was so many multiple members who manage the company. Please don’t spread negative post.
This number has been already disconnected and i suggest you to report all incident at [email protected] and regarding,Delhi, we have multiple reseller and suppliers over more than countries, so please don’t relate this things, i always revert your email when you report incident, so please don’t post negative comments, a company don’t do wrong stuffs, we have multiple thousand of numbers, why we will support scammers ?
the number has been disconnected, i suggest you to report incident via email at [email protected]
You simply pretend to disconnect a number that’s reported, and then immediately provide the same scammers with a new and different number on your network. It’s part of your business model.
Every single day multiple new and unique Knot Network toll free numbers come online, which proves you are providing fresh toll free numbers to scammers everyday.
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This number has been already disconnected and i suggest you to report all incident at [email protected] and regarding,Delhi, we have multiple reseller and suppliers over more than countries, so please don’t relate this things, i always revert your email when you report incident, so please don’t post negative comments, a company don’t do wrong stuffs, we have multiple thousand of numbers, why we will support scammers ?
Your main business model is to provide toll free numbers to scam call centres, resellers and tech support publishers so they can put it on the Microsoft phishing page.
As you are aware, yours is the ONLY teleco network that openly supports scammers and refuses to stop serving them. All other carriers refuse to work with tech support scammers.
There is no use case for Knot Networks outside of Tech support scam, because you do not have any legitimate users or clients that are doing legal business.
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Knot Networks is United States based company headquartered in Delaware. and this company not belong to a particular person. there was so many multiple members who manage the company. Please don’t spread negative post.
Wrong. Knot Networks is an Indian based company, whose founder and staff are entirely located in India. You simply incorporated in Delaware to obtain FCC teleco license.
It is owned and operated by Hemant Chand who is an Indian citizen, residing in India.
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Thanks for clarification.
Interesting that your Headquarters is inside a MailBiz mailbox, #333 at Midway Center (stripmall)
https://apps.fcc.gov/cgb/form499/499detail.cfm?FilerNum=834010
Also interesting that every link on your website gives a 404 error.
knotnetworks.com
I hope you are conforming to the Mitigation requirements, as we will be watching.
My information could be wrong or outdated, but I have been told India has extradited two Indian citizens to the US in the past fifteen years. This is why US law enforcement is currently focused on building cases for CBI to prosecute in India.
now a Walmart giftcard scam lmao