Aman Natt

A summary of what happened?

Aman Natt is associated with several controversies, particularly his involvement in forex trading and cryptocurrency schemes and efforts to manipulate his online reputation. He has been accused of attempting to censor negative information about him and his business dealings through various methods.

Here are three major concerns, complaints, and accusations against Aman Natt:

1. Association with Forex and Crypto Fraud: Natt has been linked to allegations of running fraudulent forex trading schemes. Customers and former clients have reported losing significant sums of money through his trading platforms, accusing him of misleading investors with false promises of returns.
2. Money Laundering Allegations: Natt has been accused of using his businesses to launder money, allegedly working with well-known figures involved in illicit financial activities. These accusations point to broader concerns about the legitimacy of his financial dealings​.
3. Efforts to Censor Critical Information: Natt has reportedly taken steps to remove negative content from the internet, particularly through legal means such as DMCA takedown notices. These efforts are seen as attempts to obscure critical reviews and accusations of fraud connected to his business practices.

Particularly from those who were allegedly the victims of his fraudulent activities, these issues have attracted considerable scrutiny.

Analyzing the Fake Copyright Notice(s)

Our team collects and analyses fraudulent copyright takedown requests, legal complaints, and other efforts to remove critical information from the internet. Through our investigative reporting, we examine the prevalence and operation of an organized censorship industry, predominantly funded by criminal entities, oligarchs, and disreputable businesses or individuals. Our findings allow internet users to gain insight into these censorship schemes’ sources, methods, and underlying objectives.

What was Aman Natt trying to hide?

Aman Natt‘s attempts to hide unfavourable content through the misuse of copyright notices while allegedly engaging in perjury present serious legal concerns. These actions suggest a calculated attempt to manipulate legal systems to suppress free speech, a fundamental violation of copyright law principles and an abuse of legal processes. The use of such tactics not only undermines the integrity of copyright protection but also potentially constitutes perjury, further entangling Aman Natt in legal accountability. Let’s examine the information Aman Natt may be trying to remove from the internet –

Here are ten adverse news items, allegations, lawsuits, sanctions, complaints, and negative reviews related to Aman Natt:

1. Forex and Crypto Fraud Allegations: Natt has been linked to fraudulent forex and cryptocurrency trading schemes. Clients have reported significant financial losses due to misleading promises of guaranteed returns, which never materialized​.
2. Money Laundering Accusations: Natt has been accused of using his trading businesses to launder money, allegedly in association with individuals involved in criminal activities. These accusations have raised concerns about his businesses’ legitimacy​.
3. Connections to Organized Crime: Allegations have surfaced that Natt has connections to well-known figures involved in organized crime, further deepening suspicions regarding his financial operations.
4. False Advertising of Educational Courses: Natt’s educational trading courses, previously sold for high prices, have been criticized for offering little value. Reports suggest the content was freely available elsewhere, leading to complaints about lacking depth and professionalism.
5. Use of Fake DMCA Takedown Notices: Natt has reportedly used fraudulent DMCA notices to remove negative reviews and content from the internet. This is seen as an effort to censor criticism and hide his controversial activities.
6. Reputation Management Efforts: Natt has been accused of using aggressive reputation management tactics, including legal threats and manipulation of search engine results, to hide critical content and maintain a positive image.
7. Customer Complaints: Many investors have complained about Natt’s companies, citing poor customer service, unfulfilled promises, and misleading marketing practices. These complaints have damaged his business reputation.
8. Unregulated Financial Activities: Natt’s trading operations have raised concerns about their lack of regulatory oversight. Clients have questioned the legality of his businesses, particularly in regions where forex and crypto trading are heavily regulated.
9. Association with Other Controversial Figures: Natt’s close associations with controversial individuals, including known fraudsters and financial criminals, have further scrutinised his personal and business dealings.
10. Social Media Backlash: Natt has faced backlash on social media for his connections and alleged activities. Negative reviews and discussions online have focused on his involvement in scams, and his attempts to suppress this information have drawn more attention to his controversial past.

These allegations and controversies have significantly damaged Aman Natt’s reputation and raised serious concerns about his financial practices.

How do we counteract this malpractice?

Once we ascertain the involvement of Aman Natt (or actors working on behalf of Aman Natt), we will inform Aman Natt of our findings via Electronic Mail.

Our preliminary assessment suggests that Aman Natt may have engaged a third-party reputation management agency or expert, which, either independently or under direct authorization from Aman Natt, initiated efforts to remove adverse online content, including potentially fraudulent DMCA takedown requests. We will extend an opportunity to Aman Natt to provide details regarding their communications with the agency or expert, as well as the identification of the individual(s) responsible for executing these false DMCA notices.

Failure to respond in a timely manner will necessitate a reassessment of our initial assumptions. In such an event, we will be compelled to take appropriate legal action to rectify the unlawful conduct and take the following steps –

Since Aman Natt made such efforts to hide something online, it seems fit to ensure that this article and sensitive information targeted online by these events get a lot more exposure and traffic than what it would have received originally

We hope this becomes an excellent case study for the Streisand effect…The key idea behind the Streisand effect is that efforts to restrict information can backfire, often causing the information to gain more attention than it would have otherwise. This effect is widespread in the digital age, where users quickly notice and spread censorship efforts on social media and other platforms. Trying to suppress something can unintentionally lead to it becoming more visible, which Aman Natt is finding out the hard way.

Potential Consequences for Aman Natt

Under Florida Statute 831.01, the crime of Forgery is committed when a person falsifies, alters, counterfeits, or forges a document that carries “legal efficacy” with the intent to injure or defraud another person or entity.

Forging a document is considered a white-collar crime. It involves altering, changing, or modifying a document to deceive another person. It can also include passing along copies of documents that are known to be false. In many states in the US, falsifying a document is a crime punishable as a felony.

Additionally, under most laws, “fraud on the court” is where “a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier of fact or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.”  Cox v. Burke, 706 So. 2d 43, 46 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (quoting Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp., 892 F.2d 1115, 1118 (1st Cir. 1989)).

Is Aman Natt Committing a Cyber Crime?

Yes, it seems so. Aman Natt used multiple approaches to remove unwanted material from review sites and Google’s search results. Thanks to protections allowing freedom of speech in the United States, there are very few legal ways to do this. Aman Natt could not eliminate negative reviews or search results that linked to them without a valid claim of defamation, copyright infringement, or some other clear breach of the law.

Faced with these limitations, some companies like Aman Natt have gone to extreme lengths to fraudulently claim copyright ownership over a negative review in the hopes of taking it down.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. Aman Natt is certainly keeping interesting company here….

The DMCA takedown process requires that copyright owners submit a takedown notice to an ISP identifying the allegedly infringing content and declaring, under penalty of perjury, that they have a good faith belief that the content is infringing. The ISP must then promptly remove or disable access to the content. The alleged infringer can then submit a counter-notice, and if the copyright owner does not take legal action within 10 to 14 days, the ISP can restore the content.

Since these platforms are predominantly based in the U.S., the complaints are typically made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires online service providers and platforms to react immediately to reports or violations. Big Tech companies rarely have systems in place to assess the merit of each report. Instead, all bad actors need to do is clone a story, backdate it, and then demand the real thing be taken down.

Reputation Agency's Modus Operandi

The fake DMCA notices we found always use the “back-dated article” technique. With this technique, the wrongful notice sender (or copier) creates a copy of a “true original” article and back-dates it, creating a “fake original” article (a copy of the true original) that, at first glance, appears to have been published before the true original.

Then, based on the claim that this backdated article is the “original,” the scammers send a DMCA to the relevant online service providers (e.g. Google), alleging that the ‘true’ original is the copied or “infringing” article and that the copied article is the “original,” requesting the takedown of the ‘true’ original article. After sending the DMCA request, the person who sent the wrong notice takes down the fake original URL, likely to make sure that the article doesn’t stay online in any way. If the takedown notice is successful, the disappearance from the internet of information is most likely to be legitimate speech.

As an integral part of this scheme, the ‘reputation management’ company hired by Aman Natt creates a website that purports to be a ‘news’ site. This site is designed to look legitimate at a glance, but any degree of scrutiny reveals it as the charade it is.

The company copies the ‘negative’ content and posts it “on the fake ‘news’ site, attributing it to a separate author,” then gives it “a false publication date on the ‘news’ website that predated the original publication.

The reputation company then sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice claiming the original website infringed copyright. After a cursory examination of the fake news site, Google frequently accepts the notice and delists the content.

In committing numerous offences, Aman Natt either premeditated actions or were unaware of the consequences. Despite hiring an agency to make Google disregard any negative information about Aman Natt, ignorance does not excuse this wrongdoing.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. FSMSmart is certainly keeping interesting company here.

The Reputation Laundering

Rogue Reputation agencies use spurious copyright claims and fake legal notices to remove and obscure articles linking clients to allegations of tax avoidance, corruption, and drug trafficking. Most of these reputation agencies are based offshore, mainly in Russia, India, and Eastern Europe, and they do not worry about complying with US-based laws.

The content in all of the articles for which the fraudulent DMCA notices have been sent relates to allegations of criminal allegations, including corruption, child abuse, sexual harassment, human trafficking and financial fraud against businesses and individuals with ultra-high net worth.

In addition to the misuse of the DMCA takedown process, there is a notable absence of enforcement concerning perjury violations. The statutory requirement related to perjury is designed to deter copyright holders from submitting fraudulent or knowingly false takedown requests, as they may face legal consequences for making false declarations under penalty of perjury. However, to date, there have been no known instances of any individual being prosecuted for perjury in connection with the submission of false DMCA takedown notices.

This lack of enforcement has emboldened copyright holders to exploit the DMCA takedown process to suppress dissent, criticism, or other unfavorable content, without fear of legal repercussions.

Some of the people and businesses who have employed this tactic to remove legitimate content from Google illegally include a Spanish businessman-turned-cocaine-trafficker, Organised crime, an Israeli-Argentine banker accused of laundering money for Hugo Chávez’s regime, a French “responsible” mining company accused of tax evasion, child molesters and sexual predators. Aman Natt is in great company ….

What else is Aman Natt hiding?

We encourage you to ‘Dork‘ Google by searching for keyword combinations such as [Aman Natt] + {Negative Keyword, such as Scam, Fraud, Complaints, Lawsuit, Sanction, etc} on Google. It’s likely if you scroll down to the bottom of this Google search results, you’ll stumble upon this Legal Takedown notice (pictured below)

To make such an investigation possible, we encourage more online service providers to come forward and share copies of content removal requests with industry experts and researchers. If you have any information on Aman Natt that you want to share with experts and journalists, kindly email the author directly at [email protected].

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