I contacted Phantom Plate Inc aka Phantom Alert about their dealer/distributor program after I bought their PhotoBlocker spray and they connected me with Nariq Ofari out of Chicago who told me he needed a distributor in Colorado because he couldn't ship directly to a buyer and needed me to be the middleman. He said that to get started he needed me to pay for the insurance of the shipping which was $1800. He asked me to wire it to him but I put it on my Discover card (Thankfully) and he was sending the shipment to me in the morning and once the shipment was signed for he would refund the money to my card. It was supposed to be here in two days. After two days he said that he was going to come out to Denver to meet me in person and bring the shipment but he never arrived. Claimed his son was taken to the ER and had to delay his trip but I would receive the shipment in two days. When it didn't show up I called and texted and got no response for a little while. Then he said he was in the process of closing another big deal and that if I could wait until Tuesday next week he would pay me another $5000 on top of the $23,000 from this order. So I waited and then on Tuesday I received a tiny order that was a "mistake" and I should just hold onto that and they will ship directly to the client. So the delivery supposedly went to the customer and I never got my commission, but I got a call from my credit card company saying that there's been multiple charges for a total of $5700 to PhantomAlertOne and if I knew about them. Which I didn't and so I disputed all of those charges and explained to them what I agreed to. I then cancelled my cards so they couldn't scam me out of anything else. I contacted Nariq Ofari via text and phone and told him I found out about the extra charges and played like I authoirzied the charges then when I said I was calling the FTC he said wouldn't dispute the charge back and that he's sending me more GPS cards in addition to the 100 cards previously sent (which I never oredered and didn't want) I told him I don't want more cards and that he needs to send me money for the first commission. He gave more excuses and then said that his bank account will likely be shut down due to my complaint about the over charges. He tried to make me feel bad for reporting him. This was a Monday, he said he would go to his bank and open another account which may take a few days to accept payments and depostis. He then claims that his account is open today (Wednesday) but wouldn't be able to accept deposits or send wires. I called my bank to ask if this was truthful and they said no it was not. He then tells me that he sold the 170 cards that he sent me to a CONSUMER GROUP IBC in Chicago and for me to send the cards there but didn't say anything about paying me what he owed me and that I needed to pay for shipping of these cards. I told him that if he wired me $500 as a good faith deposit I would send the cards. He has refused over and over again and now I'm calling my attorney, the FTC and writing this.
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I contacted Phantom Plate Inc aka Phantom Alert about their dealer/distributor program after I bought their PhotoBlocker spray and they connected me with Nariq Ofari out of Chicago who told me he needed a distributor in Colorado because he couldn't ship directly to a buyer and needed me to be the middleman. He said that to get started he needed me to pay for the insurance of the shipping which was $1800. He asked me to wire it to him but I put it on my Discover card (Thankfully) and he was sending the shipment to me in the morning and once the shipment was signed for he would refund the money to my card. It was supposed to be here in two days. After two days he said that he was going to come out to Denver to meet me in person and bring the shipment but he never arrived. Claimed his son was taken to the ER and had to delay his trip but I would receive the shipment in two days. When it didn't show up I called and texted and got no response for a little while. Then he said he was in the process of closing another big deal and that if I could wait until Tuesday next week he would pay me another $5000 on top of the $23,000 from this order. So I waited and then on Tuesday I received a tiny order that was a "mistake" and I should just hold onto that and they will ship directly to the client. So the delivery supposedly went to the customer and I never got my commission, but I got a call from my credit card company saying that there's been multiple charges for a total of $5700 to PhantomAlertOne and if I knew about them. Which I didn't and so I disputed all of those charges and explained to them what I agreed to. I then cancelled my cards so they couldn't scam me out of anything else. I contacted Nariq Ofari via text and phone and told him I found out about the extra charges and played like I authoirzied the charges then when I said I was calling the FTC he said wouldn't dispute the charge back and that he's sending me more GPS cards in addition to the 100 cards previously sent (which I never oredered and didn't want) I told him I don't want more cards and that he needs to send me money for the first commission. He gave more excuses and then said that his bank account will likely be shut down due to my complaint about the over charges. He tried to make me feel bad for reporting him. This was a Monday, he said he would go to his bank and open another account which may take a few days to accept payments and depostis. He then claims that his account is open today (Wednesday) but wouldn't be able to accept deposits or send wires. I called my bank to ask if this was truthful and they said no it was not. He then tells me that he sold the 170 cards that he sent me to a CONSUMER GROUP IBC in Chicago and for me to send the cards there but didn't say anything about paying me what he owed me and that I needed to pay for shipping of these cards. I told him that if he wired me $500 as a good faith deposit I would send the cards. He has refused over and over again and now I'm calling my attorney, the FTC and writing this.