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- Fort Pierce, FL, USA • Feb 23, 2024
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I gave deposit for a puppy. Then i paid for crate rental at courier. Then i paid fòr insurance. They wanted more and i finally said no. They threatened me with jail.

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- Quinton, AL, USA • Feb 21, 2024
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Saw a puppy of facebook i asked questions they asked questions never communicated over phone only by messenger 250 pet deposits 175 food 300 for vet visits and being dewormed 600 for rest of puppy sent photo and a small video was not registered on the kkc but claimed to be and then after "dropping" off dog proceeded to get even more scammed by the delivery site and now being harrassed by threats of jail time

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- Waukee, IA, USA • Feb 20, 2024
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I was searching the internet for samoyed puppies and found this website, i saw a puppy that really caught my attention and sent a request for it. I had inquired on one of their puppies that was available. They emailed me. Got interested because the puppy was only $700 (they were expecting another litter). After agreeing on purchasing the puppy. They ended up asking for my address and in return they would give me my chosen payment method. They told me shipping would cost $250 which seemed extremely low and told me they would send the puppy to me by air even going as far as to drive them straight to my doorstep. I ended up paying for this and they were going to provide me with a shipping company information that they went through, called EasyPet voyage. Shipping company kept asking for more money and more things to sign and that it would all get refunded at delivery of the dog. After I caught on with the scam, I had contacted them for my money back and no response was made from them.

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- Emporia, KS, USA • Feb 20, 2024
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On 2/16/24 I went to www.valleyranchsaintsbernards.com to inquire about a puppy. I submitted an inquiry request through the website. The next day, 2/17/24, I received a reply via text and email. The phone number I was contacted from was 505-373-2655. The email address I was contacted from was [email protected]. John Luke is the man who contacted me. He said he was out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We agreed on a price, and I sent him the money via Cash App. His Cash App name is Ray Fonkem. His Cash App ID is $RayFricana13. I did not send him money to ship the puppy to my house. I was going to go pick up the puppy and leave on 2/20/24. On 2/19/24 I contacted John Luke about when I was planning on leaving and other information about the puppy. A few hours later I received a text and email saying that I needed to send him money to ship the puppy because he had a family emergency in Germany. That's when I knew he was a fraud. I requested a refund and did not pay him the shipping. I reported to Cash App that this was a fraud and requested a refund. I have not received a refund from either party. Nor do I expect to see one.

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- Tampa, FL, USA • Feb 19, 2024
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The website advertised like 8 dachshund puppies for sale all at 800 dollars with vaccines updated and potty trained. Once emailed there were little to no requirements needed to be met in order for the seller to jump to fiscal logistics on when and how I wanted to buy the dog.

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- West Palm Beach, FL, USA • Feb 19, 2024
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I have been looking to buy an English sheep dog. I reached out to this one breeder and they were very responsive at first. After I sent my deposit they stopped responding. I called numerous times and it just goes to voicemail.

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- Jacksonville, FL, USA • Feb 19, 2024
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I was alerted to this scam by a neighbor who indicated that my home address was being falsely used by a scammer pretending to be a puppy seller. This explains someone coming to my home weeks earlier looking for a puppy. My home address is being used as a fake place of business on Google - with a street view of my home and everything. The scammer states that a 50% deposit is required "before coming to my house" to see a puppy. But they are providing my home address and I have not, as of yet, been able to get Google to take it down and it has been over a month. Literally crime in progress and after a month of flagging it, it is still there.

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- Traverse City, MI, USA • Feb 18, 2024
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The scammers reached out to my elderly mom regarding purchasing a puppy. The sellers name is Larry Johnson from IL or so they say. The seller supposedly dropped the puppy off to a shipping company to have it flown to my mom in Michigan. The freight company, Smart Prime Online, is wanting her to send another $300 for a crate and insurance to ship the puppy. I went online myself to check into this and went on a chat with someone and the wanted me to send the $300 either by Apple Pay or Zelle and gave me an individuals personal email of [email protected]. When I questioned this they made an excuse that its so that they can direct the funds to the crate provider. When I ask for proof that the situation is not a scam they do nothing but threaten abandonment of the puppy and calling the authorities on us.

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- Fort Myers, FL, USA • Feb 18, 2024
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Email website fake phone number asks for 650 for the dog 200 shipping.

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• Mar 03, 2024
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Wish I would have seen this site sooner cuz they just got me for $850 yesterday for a puppy. Now they have disconnected the phone number that they were using. Same website but different phone numbers. I, myself just made a post to here about the same website.

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- Salisbury, NH, USA • Feb 18, 2024
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Inquired about a certain pup and was replied to via text message from Mitchel *****. Asked a few questions and he stated he could get me the pup by tomorrow, that he was already shipping 2 pups to California today. When asked how do I get money to you, my options were Zelle or Cash App, etc…. He never got back to me with the cash app tag, so I guess I am the lucky one here. He did send me pictures of the parents and several pictures of the pup I was interested in. Mitchel did get back to me while I was writing this and his cash app tag is $************ another name given was Dakota *******. Thankfully I was able to do some more research on this “too good to be true” situation.

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- West Palm Beach, FL, USA • Feb 17, 2024
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I was supposedly speaking to someone who sells golden doodle puppies. I sent them 800.00 then they advised the puppy would be transferred via a courier service, inter continental shipping, the day of delivery 2/17/24 they advised of the following :

Dear client

NO:MSL091895174684-CARGO

Your puppy has been matriculated at the agency and is currently in transit But we are facing a little problem, the insurance and Quarantine service center requires an insurance certification before we can proceed with the delivery of this puppy They said the insurance fee is 100% REFUNABLE upon the safe arrival of the puppy because it is only meant to cover the puppy just for some hours. The insurance fee is $899 including delivery which will be refunded back to you today

GRAND TOTAL OF REFUND

Amount .................................. $899

Which is 100% REFUNDABLE BACK TO YOU TODAY EITHER BY CASH OR BY BANK TRANSFERS

Dear Client no:MSL091895174684-CARGO

REFUNDS TO ASHEY CARDOZA

TOTAL REFUNDS= $2647

We received payments you made and everything is under control. As it stands, your puppy is now on transit and we will be proceeding with your refunds.

You will need to pay a total $1599 for your refunds paperwork so that you can get your money back. $1599 will be refunded back while $250 for documentary of the paperwork for your refunds.

This $1599 is added to all your other refunds and refunded upon delivery. We just want to make sure you get your money back.

TOTAL REFUNDS

INSURANCE= $899

VACCINES =. $699

Crate=. $1399

REFUNDS = $1599

____________________________

TOTAL = $4246

Thanks for understanding and note that we are in the last phase of getting your puppy delivered.

They kept incurring fee after fee and said the shipping of the puppy would be delayed if it was not paid, I zelled them as much as I could for the day total of 3500 so that we could have our dog. They stopped responding to my messages after I told them that these fees were outrageous and that it cost more to transport the pet than the actual cost of the pet. When I tried calling they send all my calls to voicemail and said : We don’t accept call for the moment we are so busy now. When I went to the online website and tried to call the contact us number it ran as not in service. After I advised I would be filing a police report they have not responded back to me at all. I am out of all this money, that I can’t get back, and my family has been left devastated knowing our new dog was just a scam. I was so caught up in trying to get this puppy that I did not see the signs of fraud. They kept urging the payment be submitted through multiple Zelle accounts: 2025608392

Andrew Jah

443-358-7340

Roseline

And Venmo account: @tream43

Deontrea Mccladdie ( no transactions went through but I’m attaching information for your review)

And PayPal Frontera

[email protected]( no transactions went through but I’m attaching information for your review)

So that this does not happen to another unsuspecting family thinking they will receive a puppy they paid for

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- Dawsonville, GA, USA • Feb 15, 2024
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PottersHaven.com advertises puppies online. They requested payment via Zelle, Googlepay, ApplePay and once the get the payment you never hear from them again. they will not return emails and will not provide phone number or address.

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- Springfield, OR, USA • Feb 15, 2024
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The originally told me it would be 500 for the Chihuahua and a 100.00 delivery. Just before they were coming then they wanted 1700.00 for permits to travel with the dog, microchip fees, registration, city fees. They would not deliver the puppy because they wanted an additional 600.00 which refused to send them. They never delivered the dog. I am out of 2300.00

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- Balsam Lake, WI, USA • Feb 15, 2024
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I was searching the internet for samoyed puppies and found this website, i saw a puppy that really caught my attention and sent a request for it. I had already been on high alert as the website had a few spelling errors but my emotions got the best of me. After sending the email, they sent me a message that seemed pretty promising with extra photos but after reverse image searching the photos it turns out they got every photo from an instagram page using posts that date back to 2017. I then reverse searched every photo on their website and found another dog’s instagram page and another instagram page of a supposed “reviewer”. i followed their email with my own answering some questions that they had asked just to see where it how it would play out. They ended up asking for my address and in return they would give me my chosen payment method. They told me shipping would cost $250 which seemed extremely low and told me they would send the puppy to me by air even going as far as to then drive him straight to my doorstep. i didn’t end up paying as i caught onto their scheme and read online that there are countless websites just like this one. so i’m hoping that you guys could try doing something about this one. NO contact info on their website.

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• Feb 15, 2024
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We found a website online that seemed to have great reviews for a German shepherd puppy. The apparent breeder, “Greg Azoulay” stated that he had puppies available that he could ship to us from Halifax NS to Edmonton AB. We filled out all the breeding contracts and puppy questionnaire, and were told that the puppy would be shipped to us that week. A few days later I received an email from a bogus Pet shipping company, Pet Thriver Logistics stating that it would be $1505 to crate the puppy and ship him to us. Stating that the puppy was at the airport and in their care. I got suspicious and started researching the said shipping company, whom has their own website as well. I found out that the shipping company was a complete scam, and I found the breeder’s IP to be located in the USA. I then reverse image searched the puppy photos used on the website, and found out that all the pictures were stolen from back in 2021 off an online forum.

The seller, “Greg” refuses to refund the money. He is clearly the same guy, slightly changing the name of his puppy breeding business every few months, as he keeps scamming people.

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- Dayton, PA, USA • Feb 12, 2024
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I contacted Claudia Torres concerning a dapple Daschund, I paid her $200 to pay for transport, she took the puppy to a transport company that has had the puppy for a week because they keep requesting more money. They say the dog is on its way then say we’ll pay this and you’ll have by the end of the day now, they want another $1500 for customs. The puppy is coming from MI to PA.

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- Miami, FL, USA • Feb 12, 2024
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My mom searched and ultimately found AMBERFAMILYPASSION.site looking for a papillon puppy. The email address shown on the site is invalid but there is a ‘contact us’ section where you put your information and which puppy you would like and then send the ‘email’. She was supposed to receive her puppy within 2 weeks. My mom was told the puppy would be coming from Texas with an ‘escort’ to ensure safe travels and delivery. A week and a half passed with no communication from the ‘breeder’. When my mom tried to contact them again, her emails were kicked back with ‘this email address does not exist’ or ‘invalid address’.

On the site’s Contact Us page, there is only an invalid email address. There are no phone numbers, addresses or other valid information.

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- Trabuco Canyon, CA, USA • Feb 09, 2024
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The scammer has a Facebook page selling maltipoo puppies, called Maltipoo Puppies for Adoption and Rehoming. The group administrator was a Loli Daniela. There were approximately three (3) breeders, one of which being a Tracy Led. There were pictures of this Tracy Led with puppies. A $300 deposit was required, which we paid via Apple Pay. She wanted confirmation of the payment, which we sent. Prior to our going to pick up the puppy, I messaged confirming date and time. She responded asking for additional funds to get the puppy vaccinated. At that point I knew something wasn't right. I messsaged her, asking her to call me, which she did not do, nor did she answer my message. After that I noticed the site and wasn't there.

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• Feb 07, 2024
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Scammer pretend to sell Australian shepherd dogs.

As were located in Canada, he assures us that he can ship the dog anywhere in the world.

Once contacted he asks for a money transfer to be done for the sale, including shipment.

When money is finally received he promise the shipment to happen shortly.

Then asks for a 1500$ refundable fee for a crate for the dog to ship.

Once paid, he then asks for an insurance proof for the dog. The one we provided didn’t seem to be sufficient so he asked for another 1500$ for an insurance contract which company is in Africa. We did pay that with a credit card, which was billed to LOGISTICS.COM.

He then provided a shipment tracking number with Happy tail logistics, which seems legit (https://happytailslogistics.org/track-your-pet/). We saw movement on the website from Kansas to NY. He then asks for another 1800$ for Permits, that he says is refundable.

We initiated the purchase process on December 21st 23. The dog has supposedly arrived in NY on January 25th 24. We’re now Feb 7 and the dog is still not here.

I called Happy tail logistics and they were unable to provide information. Probably part of the scam as well.

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- Danbury, CT, USA • Feb 05, 2024
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Scammer promised to sell me a Doberman Dog for $840.00 and never delivered it.

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