Complaint Review: AEON AEROSPACE

I would like to warn everyone about this American company named Aeon Aerospace represented by George John, located at 1910, Cochran Rd, Pittsburg, PA, US.

My ex-partner and associate had won a tender for supplying petroleum products to the government Oil company of Burkina Faso. Our supplier asked us to issue an SBLC from the prime bank to begin the supplies, hence we were looking to lease the said financial instrument and that’s how we got in touch with this man named George John from Aeon Aerospace.

George John introduced himself as an aircraft parts and defense equipment supplier registered with the US military for 10 years. He told his close associate and friend, a German national, an ex-refinery owner running trading firms in different parts of the world would be able to issue an SBLC from Deutsche bank for a fee of 55,000 Euros.

George sent us the account details of his associates company in Turkey and asked us to deposit 55,000 Euros to that account, which we did. After receiving the funds, George and his partner told us they will activate the SBLC and we can start initiating the transaction with our supplier.

Our supplier’s Swiss bank after seeing the SBLC verbiage said that it is fake and we should be careful. When we communicated the same to George John, he dismissed it saying his German friend is a Billionaire having private banking accounts in Swiss banks and 55,000 Euros is peanuts for him.

Since this supplier of ours declined to supply the products we started looking for another supplier. That’s when George John told us that his associate, the German who issued the SBLC can supply the required petroleum products through a US based company in which he is a shareholder. We trusted George John and began the procedure.

We gave this new seller all the documents that he asked for, including the verbiage but his US bank also came back saying the SBLC is fake. In the tussle between the SBLC provider and his supplier, we missed the product delivery date and were blacklisted and penalized by our buyer, the Government oil company. We were blacklisted as a result of which our company cannot participate in any oil tenders for next 3 years.

We were told by George John that in case there is any issue with the SBLC provider, the complete amount without any delay would be immediately reimbursed. It's more than one and a half years since we sent the request to pay back our 55,000 Euros, but we are yet to receive our money. George John stopped picking our calls and has blocked our numbers.

He went incommunicado and all our efforts of reaching out to  him had failed. His German partner through his Turkish company sent us written assurances of paying back the amount but those were his tactics of buying time. My partner in the oil transaction, the one who sent the funds, filed a case against me in the courts and police station because it was me who had introduced George John and his German partner to him.

I have been running around between police stations and the courts for the last 12 months for no fault of mine. I would like to warn everyone to be careful while dealing with this scammer George John and his company Aeon Aerospace. Last known, George John is in Turkey and is running his operations from there.

I have all the mails, messages and voice notes exchanged with George John and his German associate. In case any authorities would need me to furnish the docs, I would be more than happy to share the same. I will be lodging a complaint against Aeon Aerospace and George John in OFAC and the Federal Trade Commission. Hope no one else falls prey to George John and his associates.