Ameritrans Freight International

It's my first transport to Europe from US..but I believe I find the worst ..Ameritrans Freight International company..First they are very nice and punctual till they get the money..after that..no answer the phone..they didn't pay the shipping..they even blocked my calls..Please stay away from Ameritrans Freight International and the manager Anthony Mwangi

I made initial contact with Anthony Mwangi the owner of Ameritrans international via email on 3/09/21, I was then contacted by an Ameritrans associate that went by the name Joseph whom I communicated with via email and telephone. Joseph seemed very dedicated to help with my shipping needs, he assisted me with quotes and very timely. Joseph would call me atleast twice a week to check in and see if I was ready to ship, I figured these guys were dedicated and decently priced, so we came to an agreement and I wired $10,841.60 to ameritrans federal credit union account on 5/27/21. This sum covered shipping two semi trucks from Baltimore to st.vincent and the grenadines. The trucks sailed from Baltimore on 7/7/21 and on 8/2/21 I was informed by joseph that the shipping line remeasured the truck and found some discrepancy with my original measurements and I will need to pay an additional 1,434.96 at this point I was given a bol and since it was my first time shipping I didnt know it should say original and not copy. I payed the second sum and thought I had everything I needed and if not I was still in contact with Joseph almost daily. Fast foward to 9/13/21 the day my trucks arrived to ST.Vincent and all hell broke loose. I presented the brooker with my bol and he informed me that I needed the original bol, I called Americans looking for joseph I got veronica Ameritrans secretary who gave me the run around for days, at first she was reaching out to the shipping line for original bol (BS) because joseph was late, then he didnt make it to work, next he went on vacation and would be gone for two weeks. They stopped answering my calls stopped replying to my emails I had to call from other phone numbers to get ahold of them, at this point its 7 days later my trucks are stuck on the port building storage cost at 168 per truck per day and still no fix from Ameritrans. In desperation I reached out to the shipping line who informed me that Ameritrans has not made any payment, I could not hold my tears back. Thankfully the shipping line was willing to work with me and after sending them all my proof of payment and them trying to contact Americans for a week without answer they changed the bol from prepaid to collect and I had to pay $9000 to get the original bol.

I am posting this to help other,I would hate to see this happen to anyone else. I know I should have done more research before hand which I did but didnt dig deep enough. Anthony Mwangi and his associates at Ameritrans are scammers! They are fully aware of what they are doing, I am not sure how they are still allowed to do business. PLEASE AVOID DOING BUSINESS WITH THESE PEOPLE AT All COST. I REPEAT DO NOT DO ANY BUSINESS WITH ANTHONY MWANGI OR ANYONE THAT IS ASSOCIATE WITH AMERITRANS INTERNATIONAL.

If anyone has any recommendations on how I should go about getting my money back please feel free to comment.

Review: I have recently moved to Sweden. Before I moved, I contacted [redacted] to get the best rate to ship my car from Baltimore to Gothenburg, Sweden. I received around 20 emails from different companies offering me their rates. I chose Ameritrans Freight International because [redacted], the owner, was prompt in responding and his rate was reasonable. When I confirmed with him that I was going to do business with him, he emailed me his bank routing information and told me to wire the $1500 to him. I heard from him a few more times after he received the money and then he was silent.

It took me a while to settle in here in Sweden so I admit that I let it go for a few weeks thinking maybe he was on vacation or in the hospital. I called and emailed and never heard back from him. I went on his website and “requested a quote” for a bogus car just to see if he was still working. He wrote me back (to my second email address) within a few hours. After that I emailed him and threatened to file a police report if he did not return my money. When he finally responded he apologized for the mix up and said it would take a week to get my money back. Naïvely I gave him 2 weeks but never heard from him again.

Unfortunately my email has about a month of missing emails which include the first emails between me and [redacted] when we agreed on a price and the email giving me wiring instructions. Obviously if I could go back in time, I would do things very differently. I was naïve and he probably saw me as an easy mark. It still does not give him the right to take advantage of me and steal my money.

I filed a police report with [redacted] County, Maryland.

The company is called Ameritrans Freight International. The website is:

http://www.ameritransfreight.com/index.php/contactus

The CEO/owner is [redacted].

The first website I went to request a quote is called http://www.[redacted]/. I emailed them recently to alert them that one of their “Premium Members” is a con artist but I never heard back from them.Desired Settlement: I would like my money returned to me and this "business" shut down so he doesn't scam other people.

I asked for several quotes with different shippers in order to ship a huge Forrage Harvester from Georgia, USA to Costa Rica. Received a lot of options but Ameritrans one was the lowest. The company was really responsive! I booked the dock with them and Anthony send me a Paypal online invoice, I complete the payment and waited until the Estimated Date of Delivery agreed with him to contact the company again. 1 week before my harvester was supposed to arrived I started sending several emails in order to request details and documentation for import process. He just stopped answering me!
I saw in the dock receipt the name of the original shipper (NMT Shipping), since Ameritrans was just a Freight Forwarder. I contacted them to ask information and they told me that effectively, my harvester was shipped and had arrived at Costa Rica port, but that they weren't able to release it because Anthony didn't pay the shipping invoice to them. Due to customs regulations, I only had 15 days from de date of arrival to release my machine or I was going to loose it! So since Anthony didn't answered to me or the shipper, I had to pay again the shipping costs to NMT Shipping. I want this guy in jail for scaming people, US Goverment or FBI should do something. I filled a complaint at the Internet Complaint Center and never heared from them

Review: Ameritrans Freight International LLC has defrauded me $3600 for freight pick up,loading, delivery and shipping to over sea. He had me transfer money right into his account at [redacted] in Maryland: the bank address is [redacted] MD, [redacted]. with Account #[redacted] and a routing#[redacted].I transfer the fund into his on May 20,2014 at 11:27 West coast time I called him and ask if him received the money and he has. that was the last time he talk to me.I have try to contact on email over a thousand time and phone call but he did return emails and calls.I went the bank where deposited was made and spoke with the manager to see what if they can return the fund back but it can not do that cause of the law. I need the Revdex.com of Maryland to stop this guy from Defrauding other people and arrest him and send him back to Nigeria.I have with other Freight Forwarder after the incident they inform me stay away from this ask he has scam other multi time before. The Company Own name is Anthony M[redacted] with ph:###-###-#### based in Maryland in [redacted].Desired Settlement: stop this guy from scam other like me out there in the International shipping industries. we want him arrested and throw in jail and return the fund that he had scam from other return to right peoples.

Review: I am submitting this report on behalf of my friend, for whom I had power of attorney to complete details regarding shipping her car, from California to Spain. Below are her words:

From 2007 to December 2012, I lived in California. When I returned to Spain, I decided to bring the car I had bought with me, so I started to request quotes from shipping companies. The request forms were always online, and I had many responses by email. A company was particularly "attentive" and kept in touch constantly, at first by email, then even called me several times to my Spanish cell phone (I remember a U.S. number on the caller ID +1 ...). The CEO of the company is called Anthony M[redacted], and the company is Ameritrans Freight International LLC.

The company data is the following:

Ameritrans Freight International

http://ameritransfreight.com

www.ameritransfreight.com

Anthony M[redacted]

C.E.O

Direct TEL: ###-###-####

FAX: ###-###-####

[email protected]

The process to get the paperwork ready took long, since I had trusted a friend, with a power of attorney to finish it. Finally, on October 2013, Anthony urged me to book a place “as prices would rise in the next quarter”. As I always do, I did an Internet search on the company and eventually found nothing. So I decided to book a place, so Anthony sent me an invoice with the company bank account information. As it was an American bank, transfers from Spain are expensive, so Alexander wired the money [$3000] from his bank and then I paid him with a check. The bank details are as follows:

[redacted], MD [redacted]

ACCT NAME: Ameritrans Freight International (USA), LLC

ACCOUNT# [redacted] ROUTING NO: [redacted] (Wire)

SWIFT CODE: [redacted] (OVERSEAS WIRES)

ROUTING NO: [redacted] (Electronic)

Everything seemed in order, and Anthony sent me a confirmation of payment email. Anthony did not contact me again. I contacted him about two and half months ago, when I requested him a shipment date. At first, very friendly, told me that he would begin to look for dates, and two weeks passed. Then, when I asked him again, that he was still waiting, then that he had been promised a booking “next week”, and I waited two weeks for an the dates. I sent another email, urging to give me a date, and I showed my disappointment with the service. He never replied. It was then when I started to get very worried, and I started to search online, more deeply, to try to find something more about the company. I told my friend to call the company phone, but there was no answer. I went to the company website, and entered in the support chat, and Anthony immediately answered. I took this as suspicious, as Anthony was, supposedly, the company CEO. I pretended to be someone else and I ask him to send me a fake quote, which he did a few minutes.

So as the matter was already worrying me, my friend suggested to look at the website of Revdex.com. I did and I found a report explaining facts that were exactly like those that had occurred to me. See: : [redacted]

We also checked on [redacted] Maps the location of the office, and he discovered that the supposed location was a commercial mall.

When I found out about this, I immediately reported to the FBI, FTC, Interpol and the Spanish Police and Civil Guard (as the incident happened when I was already living in Spain).

I also have all the emails that Anthony sent me, the bank transfer information and the invoice Anthony sent me (attached)

Also, I tried to get the cell phone company to get me the incoming calls list, but the Spanish law forbids it, and can only be retrieved by judicial order. In that list is the actual number from where Anthony called me.Desired Settlement: Refund of $3000 from wire-transfer to pay for services that were NOT delivered. Namely, car was not shipped to Spain.