Complaint Review: Andrew Fabrikant - Los Angeles California

Andrew Fabrikant(26), who has recently legally changed his name to Andrew Ross and fled to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale has been running an intricate ponzi scheme since he was 20 years old. He has changed his phone number to 310-890-6252. The other reports on this website are correct in that Andrew is a career scammer like his father. How Andrew builds his credibility with you is to immediately tell you about his "wealthy" family. He shows off his fancy cars and rolexs, which are all paid for by money he has stolen from his victims.

Andrew claims to have ownership through his "trust" in companies owned by who he calls his "step dad", Robert (Bob) Cohen and his real son Jeffrey Cohen. The Cohens are the owners of Cohen's fashion optical, General Vision, and many other companies. Andrew will build your trust, become your best friend and eventually bring you in on these "amazing" money making opportunities. 

The first 1 to 2 times that you "invest" with him you will get paid back in a timely manner with the interest that he claimed you would earn. This is when he gets you involved with multiple "investments" all at the same time. Then the excuses start coming. His strategy is to slow pay and trickle in a little money that he steals from others to keep you quiet. Another strategy is to write you checks that take 10 days to clear, which end up bouncing.

Between myself and my group of colleagues he has stolen over $300k and his scams include:

1) Fake investments through his "Step dad's" former company called Golden Pear

2) Fake real estate investments where he sends pictures of plots of land for you to partner and invest in

3) Fake time piece investments where he claims he is going in 50/50 with you to buy & flip watches, but just keeps your money

4) Renting out his cars, having you pay him cash, claiming he will make the car payments to the leasing company, but then keeping the money and having the car repossed

5) Opening up dual member LLCs with friends, opening joint credit cards in the other person's name and running up the bill and leaving the debt solely on the other person.

6) Using other people's credit cards for fake investments into his "Step dad's" company General Vision where he sends them a credit card payment and has the company send him cash and then leaves you with the bill.

7) Buying custom suits in the excess of $8k, furniture for his apartments, paying for legal services and then charging them all back.

After the house of cards starts falling, he flees across the country. He ran his scams in Las Vegas and when they ran dry, he fled to Florida where he scammed myself and our group of colleagues. After it started falling apart in Florida him and his girlfriend (accomplice) came up with an elaborate story. The story was that she left him and went to Los Angeles to work for the company she used to work for in Chicago at their new location. It was the perfect excuse to escape before anybody could put 2 and 2 together and go to the police. Meanwhile he was in the process of legally changing his last name.

Part of this can be attributed to his Father Jay Fabrikant who is also a convicted fraudster. Andrew's mother spoke to a group of the victims where she admitted that nothing he ever said was true and told us verbatim, "Fu** my son."

The other part can be attributed to his physchological disorders. Andrew is a Sociopath that shows the same mental patterns and attributes as people such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer etc. Andrew genuinely revels in scamming other people and laughs when confronted about his scams. He feels no remorse and enjoys hurting other people. 

Please beware and do not be tricked by him or his accomplice Devin LaMantia. If you have been scammed by Andrew Ross there is a current FBI investigation. You can call and give them your testimony as many of the victims already have. You can call the FBI Miami Office at 754-703-2000.