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Michael Lane Jr (aka Mike Lane Native Black Ancestry) scammed $1200 + $95 from me and my elderly mother - took the money and basically ghosted us. On his social media videos, he comes across as very knowledgeable about what he speaks. This is one of the weapons he uses to get persons like me to be confident in what he is selling. Mike Lane (NativeBlackAncestry.com) agreed to do genealogy services for me and at the agreed price of $1200 plus the $95 I had paid him for a consultation (which was not provided). There was a cheaper option, however, Mr. Lane offered his "expedited 30-day turnaround" service for the price of $1200. It was agreed that this option would be the one for which I would contract him. Mr. Lane informed me of the Afterpay option that "most of his clients use" and I opted for this option. As I was providing information on the research results that my family and I had already procured prior to contracting with Mr. Lane, he cut me short then recapped, it seemed, with "If I need any other information, I will contact you." 30-days came and I requested and received a refund from Afterpay due to non-providing of services paid for. Immediately, Mr. Lane reached out to me (it was dead silence prior, noted)! He used his 'gift for gab' imo, to convince me that he was going to fulfil my services and provide to me my results at another stated time. Mr. Lane confided that he had over 30 clients that he was working on and that he had not done their services either, noted. Mr. Lane asked me to reverse the charge back and that he promised that he would have my genealogy report back to me at another stated time given. I wanted to believe him and reversed the charge back. Time passed again with no contact and no order fulfillment. It has been over 4 months and Mr. Lane has not processed my order nor has he reached out to me unless I have contacted him for an update - and this, only roughly 2 weeks after each request for update. Within the last request for update email I aksed Mr. Lane to provide me with any proof that he had even started my order. He did not, refusing to do so - leaving no other option to believe but that Mr. Lane had not even started my order although, at this time, it was working on 4 months behind contracted delivery of services. My last email to Mr. Lane was a request for a FULL REFUND due to the aforementioned and latter. There has been no response. Consequently, I texted Mr. Lane my notification of my intent to sue in Civil Court. He responded with a message stating that "this number he flagged as spam and asked who I was" . I reminded Mr. Lane that he and I had texted and talked on this same number multiple times prior to making payment for my services and (played along) gave him my full name as on my services agreement option. During this conversation, Mr. Lane angrily informed me that 4 months was not a long time to wait and that he had 80....clients to process and that he was 'just one man'....I reminded Mr. Lane that if he can't do the work, he should not be offering to do the work and charging people good money to do so. Please note that when Mr. Lane took my money for services, he said he only had 30...clients to process. This means that, although he had pre-existing orders that he could not/would not be processing...he continued on taking in another 50 new paid clients (at roughly $1200 per person). In my opinion, this reads like a multi-level marketing or ponsi scheme. After having accepted that Mr. Lane would not be completing my order and that I would likely have to fight him in court to get my money back plus attorney fees+....I rand a quick social media search on Mr. Lane and found that he used to call himself Mr. Real Estate and there are consumrs claiming that he scammed them out of their money and held a person's home hostage refusing to leave. These are non-affiliated persons and, although I screen recorded the video, the videos are available with a search. His former genealogy platform was Key Media Pro or www.keymediapro or [email protected] I hope this helps others from having to go through the same thing that I am being forced to go through just to get justice. Do your research, people, prior to paying for any services online.