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- Fulshear, TX, USA
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Used scammer website to engage on puppy information. Scammer sent a text and then emails with photos and videos of puppy. Scammer provided details on puppy transport. Scammer sent a contract which I signed. I then sent money via Zelle.

The next morning I realized puppy was still listed on website. I did more research and realized a scam was listed in Australia. Scammer claimed from Cody Wyoming.

Once I realized the potential contacted scammer and said I would report, send photos or have a call with puppy. They said they would but never got back to me.

Reported to my bank on Zelle transfer, FTC and BBB.

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- Kutztown, PA, USA
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The scammer was attempting to sell Boston Terrier Puppy’s. PayPal flagged the transaction. Indicated suspicious activity.

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- Lexington, KY, USA
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Seemed all legit. Lots of good explanations on shipping, asked for vet, how I'd respond if puppy destroyed article over $100, had I ever had a puppy. Sent contract and returned. Sent payment link for credit card. When I asked for Pic with today's date and the puppy, the conversation stalled.

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- Parrish, FL, USA
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We spent a week trying to process the payment. All forms of payments were denied processing (zelle, Venmo and credit card). Every time different accounts with different names were used. I thought it was bad luck until I found other complaints online.

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- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Sheltie puppies for sale, beautiful posed photos. Asking for deposit, pressuring for my personal contact information to “file paperwork and arrange delivery”. Price of puppy is $600, he seemed confused because I said I wanted 2. Wants my information and he will send ApplePay request. I told him I had not set up my debit card and he wanted a screenshot of the message. Many grammar errors, not answering the questions with proper grammar.

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- Fairfax, VA, USA
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FAKE dog breeder company at phone number (574) 440-6257 from India lied about being located in Woodbridge, VA. Scammers are located in India and charged me $500 reservation fee for a dog that never existed and then charged up $620 fake flight insurance and $980 for “refundable” crate rental and a city permit to deliver my puppy. They ran up my card and refused to refund on 2/1/24. Incident reported to police, FBI, and financial institution. Investigation pending. Shut down the website asap!!!

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- Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Found Shih Tzu on website exchanged email looked at testimonies seemed legit. Charged $500 for puppy, then $180 for shipping. Had contract signed. Had to through accountant to use debit card which was throught Payoneer system. Then after payment goes through suppose to get puppy shipped and received email from intermediatelogistics.org say puppy needed insurance and soft crate to finish trip. $1455 deposit required and 90% refund. Went back and forth with individual explaining would not pay additional money as that was not part of the deal. Just saw someone when through same scam on BBB.

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- Meadow Valley, CA, USA
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Puppy deposit of 300$ then the rest of $520 for the puppy

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- Holbrook, NY, USA
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Fake website selling maltipoo puppies. When inquiring they send one video and four pictures. They ask some random questions and provide approval to “purchase” a puppy. They don’t do any live chats to see the puppies. And proceed to move forward with payment.

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- Pottsville, PA, USA
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We inquired about a puppy and they seemed genuine and asked for background on owning puppies before

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- Newtown Square, PA, USA
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Pet owners across Delaware, Montgomery, and Chester Counties are being scammed out of money by Keri Diane Huhn who's doing business as Keri's Klaws and Paws. Victims come across her "services" via a Facebook group. The memebers, posts, and comments are completely skewed on her favor because there is no option to make an objective statement on this group without her approval. Furthermore, she is offering "packages" to consumers who are oblivious to her questionable business ethics, lack of communication, and professionalism. These "packages" are something like pre-pay three now, get two free. My personal experience with this "business" makes me fear for the protection of consumers:

On December 20th 2023, I reached out to make my puppy's first-ever nail trimming appointment with Keri. Her online reviews are stellar (because she has control of all memebers, posts, and comments in the Facebook group). She promptly addressed my questions and proceeded to offered dates and times that best worked for her. We set the appointment. Two days after we set the appointment, I proceeded to pre-paid the service. No answer or acknowledgement. Four days before my scheduled appointment, I sent a text to ask if there was anything needed from me during the appointment. No answer or acknowledgement. One day before my scheduled appointment around 9 AM, I sent a text to make sure the day and time still worked for her. No answer or acknowledgement! The evening before my scheduled appointment, at 6:08 PM, I picked up the phone and called. It rang twice, and then, I was sent to voice mail.

Keri finally replied to my text message at 6:48 PM that day requesting that we change the appointment time to 1:30 PM which I couldn't accommodate since I thought the appointment would happen during the morning of Sun Jan 14th. I requested a refund to which she replied "I've never had to refund anyone. You'll get it back. Have a good one" and simultaneously declined my Venmo request of $40. By January 16th, at 5 AM, I've been blocked from her Facebook Group. I have not received my refund nor a date as to when I can expect it although I've requested it several times since Jan 14th. When I asked that she refunded my money by 6 PM on Mon Jan 22nd. She said "You chose to pre pay me ahead and cancel. Not me so don't make it sound like I cancelled. I'll return it when I do. Thanks." "Now please stop harassing me for 40$".

The public needs protection from this person's scamming strategy and I am hereby imploring that you please take the necessary action.

Thank you.

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- Tucson, AZ, USA
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We contacted via their website...was acknowledged through a text. Told him we were interested in Milo for 700. Asked about transportation and he stated he could get a Nanny for an additional $600...we thought that was very weird and definitely a scam. I looked up the address property tax record and the individual that owned the property had been arrested several times.... We told him we wanted to facetime or zoom with the dog...never heard back.

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- Klamath Falls, OR, USA
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It was for a chihuahua puppy, princess moana through PUPPY FUSION i paid $350.00 to start the process and with 72 hours i was tompay another $395.00 which brings the actual cost of my puppy to a total of $745.00 which i felt was only fair. The story goes that the puppy was put on a flight from washinto D.C. and it git sick so the people taking care of her flight contacted me and told me she was grounded at RIC airport. They said i would have to pay for life insurance and a soft sided or heated crate for her and that would be $1455.00 with 90%being refunded at delivery where they would take only $165.00 for company service providing polocy scheme. I am only out the $350.00 for the puppy and i was told to zell that to Shirley Caser at email : [email protected] and in the memo i putf for Princess Moana # PM-4265. The shipping company is listed as Intermediate Logistics. They grounded my puppy,(if any of this is true ), saying my puppy got sick and would need Trust Sheild Insurance at a cost of $1455.00of which $165.00 will be ducted for company serving providing a partial polocy scheme. That left a sum of $1309.00 to be refunded to me. Sounds really fishy to me. Anyway if you call me leave a message i will get back to you. My phone screens calls. I also have paperwork to back all this up.

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- Shippensburg, PA, USA
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Looki g for puppy

Stated had one send 200.00 for deposit once that was done they wanted apple card to show remaining 400.00 i would not do this was suppose to be from pa. Then sent info to ship from florida and needed to pay another 400.00 refundable after puppy was deliver so total of 1000.00 wanted up front now after i would not do this they refuse to give my 200.00 deposit back which was suppose uo be refundable

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- Skillman, NJ, USA
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So first the “Green valley farmstead” contacted me for selling me a dog. He gave me multiple mule accounts asking me to pay 400 +40 delivery fee with PayPal and Zelle. After I paid him, he asked me many times to take screenshot of transaction history and details. After that he also asked me to record a video of me messaging Zelle customer service.

After that he said he “shipped” the dog that never existed. And then the shipping company called aviaryexpress.us or aviaryexpress.com contacted me through email and asked me $1000 insurance fee for delivery and told me they will “refund” 95% after dog delivered.

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- Purcellville, VA, USA
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On January 3, 2024 I contacted Rose Hannah, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087562931463&mibextid=LQQJ4d through Facebook messenger to adopt an Irish Wolfhound puppy that she had posted about with the Facebook group IRISH WOLFHOUND PUPPIES AND PLANED LITTERS, https://www.facebook.com/share/hPedTd8RoWNKcmPe/?mibextid=K35XfP.

Through correspondence she provided:

Pictures of a female and male puppy- both available for purchase.

Facebook group users validated legitimacy of breeder.

Details about breeder:

Address: 601 S Market St, Muncy , PA 17756

Phone: 5188365997

Email: [email protected]

These details led me to believe she was a legitimate breeder.

Typical conversation back and forth regarding Irish Wolfhound ownership.

She requested a $500 deposit through Apple Cash to phone number 404-661-1472 and then another $200 for a vet bill to phone number 910-818-5534 which was supposed to be *** ******** from **** *** Veterinary. Later I called **** *** Veterinary and they did not have a customer by the name of Rose Hannah.

The night before we were to pick up the Irish Wolfhound, I contacted Rose Hannah to confirm arrangements of meeting to pu puppy.

She messaged that her father in law had died and she was now out of town and the dog would be shipped to us through https://activecargologistics.com.

The following morning we received an email confirmation and tracking number. However, the shipper and Rose claimed that the crate used for shipping was inadequate, an additional vaccine was needed and requested us pay $500 to get puppy sent to us. After further inspection of the shipper’s website, it was obvious that some was not adding up as the site still had the template set up verbiage. Rose Hannah advised she did not have the money to cover the shipping charges.

We declined to pay any additional money and offered to pick up the puppy in Muncy, PA. The shipper continued to send text messages from 929-459-6201 that the puppy is still pending delivery. We did a search for this number and found out from https://petscams.com that Activecargologistics.com is not a legitimate delivery company.

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This is a scam website, Cfathaisiamese.com and another scam operation by the same guy, Brad Thompson who also has a website called Glider Haven Exotics. I think he has several sites advertising dog, cat, sugar gliders for sale. He wouldn't share information on his veterinarian when I asked. He just kept asking for deposit. He texts and emails. He did pick up the phone and talk to me and I was very surprised to hear a very heavy foreign accent. I knew because of the lack of response and info that it was a scam. Be on alert! These websites by scammers can look very legitimate! One red flag is there is no address on the site. You have to ask. And I was told he is in Fort Collins, Co, but I have seen other addresses attached to him. Don't send money until you thoroughly check a site out for legitamacy!

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This week I purchased a Siamese kitten for $600 plus $308 for transportation, the company said the crate was wrong one so they needed 1000.00 or 1500.00 I quickly said nope and told both parties nope your a scam they never returned my calls.

[email protected]

9702373730

https://cfathaiisiamese.com

CFA THAII SIAMESE

1301 Davidson Dr Fort Collins Colorado

The shipping company he used was Logistic Express

They called from 3372291929

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- Northampton, PA, USA
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It was a deposit on a 3 month kitten . They claim to be a half hour from me . After making deposit I asked if I could pay rest of it on cash when I picked up kitten today and they refused and said I needed to give more money on cash app like I did the deposit but it would be different info then the first time and they wouldn't give me address to come meet the kitten I placed a deposit on . So to me this is a scam , who would fight you this way and only want money through cash app . I used my cash app that I have my debit card linked to to pay people I know and I thought this was a breeder

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- Dillsburg, PA, USA
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I was scammed by a fake breeder Dezo Abyssinian Cattery when I attempted to purchase a kitten that was to be shipped to me from Texas. After paying for the kitten this shipping company said the only way the kitten could be shipped was if I put a refundable deposit down on a special crate. They provided me with a receipt showing the refundable amount and said I would get my money back upon delivery. I had to use paypal friends and family and pay their cashier, Jerry Severino. They provided me with a shipping and arrival time, but the kitten was never delivered. I requested a refund from both the breeder and the shipper, but received nothing from either.

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- Henderson, NV, USA
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I was searching for a Chihuahua puppy and the website came up. I found the puppy I liked and contacted the website for more information. I got an email as well as a text message asking if I received the email from Dr. Wayne Clinton and Mrs. Vivian Clinton at the address noted above puppy fusion.com. I have taken screenshots if you

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