Puppy buying scams

TwoDogs

TwoDogs

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I recently had a litter of GSP pups and advertised them locally in the news paper. I got two calls from two different people in 3 days through the ad. Here's where it gets interesting.

Both parties used a service for the deaf that is provided free of charge through the internet to contact me. At first I thought it was neat that two different deaf people were considering my pups. Then I got the e-mails.

I received an e-mail from both parties that were virtually identical. They would take the puppies, no questions asked, sight unseen and pay a premium. They promised to send a check or money order to me, extra money included for me to keep for my troubles and their shipper would pick up the puppies.

I asked for physical addresses and other information to fill out the registration papers on my end and the response was that I didn't have to worry about any of that, the shipper would take care of everything. When the red lights and buzzers quit going off in my head, I went to the AKC website and did a search. Lo and behold, they describe this happening to sellers, seller receives a phony money order or cashiers check, sends the dogs away only to find out that the funds are fake. Then the bank apparently deducts for the funds you received. Your out any money and your puppies.

The puppies are being sold somewhere else and someone is really making out good on them. I would think that when this happens, you could contact the AKC and prevent the puppies from being registered but that would not help anyone, including the person thinking they were buying a registerable dog.

I didn't get taken, but my calls to the local sheriffs office and FBI went largely unanswered. No hope of catching these jerks but that's life I guess.

Be careful out there.
 
This isn't restricted to just puppy ads.
It's a very common scam.

Business are solicited with these folks all the time.
They want to pick up the item, have it shipped to Florida and then to Africa. The scam is the funds are not real and as soon as the item leaves the country it's gone and you can't get it back. Another thing they want is your bank account numbers and by you trying to deposit their funds they get access to your account numbers on their end when the transaction fails.

Craigslist and newspaper ads get these calls or email all the time too.
 
Talk about scams, i got a notice from Canada saying i won 250,000 u.s dollars. Also in the envelope was a check for 3,900 for the taxes. All i had to do was cash the check and send them a money order for 2,900 and they would send the prize. I called the police and they did nothing, i also had my bank do a background on the check. What do you know it was fake.
 
A friend of mine just had the puppy scam happen to her tonight. She was telling me about it and I told her I remembered reading about it on here. Chalk that one up to another person saved by PREDATOR MASTERS!!!!!!!

Guy
 
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TwoDogs - I also had the same thing happen to me. And I also thought it was very cool that someone of a disability was looking at my dogs. Until I got the e-mail from them and then realized that it was a scam.
 
Same exact thing here with me and my lab pups several months ago. The email we got was saying i need an answer now, I really want the puppies, I'll take all of them. We wrote back and bluntly said we was not going to sale them to this person so the next day we get another email from another address saying the same thing.
 
I know some of you said you received emails, but if you receive anything through the mail, contact USPS they will follow up for mail fraud.
 
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