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- Las Vegas, NV, USA
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The website displayed puppies that were available to adopt. Listed with the prices it also displayed adopted puppies with reviews. The seller sent an application by email to fill out. Contract to sign. The name of the air traveling company. The seller was very detailed about the care of the puppy when traveling. Once completed the shipment of the puppy supposedly took place. I was contacted by the shipping company with a very formal introduction in writing. Then the company began to ask for money that wasn’t paid by the sender but would be refunded for the insurance once the puppy was delivered safely. The text messages continued with the sender acknowledging by email that the charged would be refunded. The light bulb finally went off when I called my bank . Horrible experience

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- Owings, MD, USA
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The website listed and showed pictures of Australian Shepard puppies up for adoption and was listed as a rescue. There were 100's of pictures of people with the pups they had adopted along with great reviews. I looked her up on the Australian Shepard Rescue Sites and she was listed there as well so I thought she was reputable. We were to meet to pick up the puppy, and that morning she messaged me to say that her mother had died. She stated she would be out of town for several weeks, but had a transportation company (First Zone Transportation) that would deliver the puppies along with others being delivered along the way. She stated she has used this company several times in the past and they work with her because she's a rescue company so I agreed to that. I sent her the $250 deposit for the puppy and told her I would pay the rest when I got the puppy. She was fine with that. Around noon, the transport company called to tell me I needed to pay $100 as a deposit on the kennel they would use to ship the dog in. They would return the hundred dollars as soon as we handed the kennel back to them. I looked up the company and it was a major transportation company and had all the pictures, licenses, everything a legit company would have so I sent the $100. An hour later, the company stated they did not have vaccine records or transfer between states documents and I would have to pay $400 for that for the dog to be delivered. At this point, I really started feeling scam but my husband so wanted that puppy (we lost our last dog to cancer a month ago) and said to go ahead and go it and I regretted it as soon as I did it but it was too late. I didn't realize we wouldn't be able to get our money back from PayPal. I tried, but to no avail. I told them I was canceling and no longer wanted the dog and then I started getting the threatening emails from them. I blocked them and ended it.

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- Hickory, NC, USA
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Told me she was selling husky puppies for $550 but I had brought it down to $500. Told me on the first day that I had contacted her that the deposit will be $300 and I’ll pay the rest of the $200 upfront when I go and pick up the dog. Then 2 days later I said I can come and get the dog and she asked if I can send $225 for her daughter that’s in college and that she’ll give me $25 back when I get to the place. It was the wrong address and I had traveled 6 hours getting there and had to drive 6 hours back because it was a scam. Found out that the puppy she was showing me was from 2020 and had me send the money to a different phone number.

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- Washington, DC, USA
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I found Bernadoodle link on the Facebook Website Harrison Thomas stated he was selling them. I stayed in contact with him for over 2 months. As the puppy was being shipped, he shared the shipping number to Start Transit. During the transit, the transit company stated they needed an additional $500 for insurance and an additional $500 for a new crate. Then, the user disappeared and deleted the page on Facebook.

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- Broken Arrow, OK, USA
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Referral from a Mike J Douglas. 620-307-2129, from Jim Thorpe, PA. To purchase 10 week old Red Boston Terrier puppy. Send cash payments through Cashapp to 3 different people. First delivery day not completed and 2nd delivery day 10-21-23, vendor texted the transport was delayed, wanted me to pay another $138. I offered to have local family pick up puppy and got no further communication from vendor. I refused to pay additional funds and told them I was reporting them to local law enforcement, FTC, FBI, IRS and BBB. I have names of cash recipients if needed.

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- New York, NY, USA
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I purchased. Shih Tzu Puppy from this Scam Business. I was asked to pay for the puppy, Crate & Death Insurance, Feeding & Accommodation Fee & CITE Certification. I realized this was a Scam because they continued to ask for additional funds. They use [email protected] for Tracking this Puppy and Upwork for funds.

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- Staten Island, NY, USA
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I was promised a kitten for 725.00

I paid 325.00 as requested and never got the pet. The owner- vero Mironova has asked for 400 more before the actual delivery.

This company and woman is a scam

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- Canton, IL, USA
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Found website online selling Maltipoo puppies. Contacted seller through the website form. The seller text back at 307-224-2510 stating they had sent an email from Thompsonmultipoo family containing information on the puppy we were interested in named Milo.

We were asked a few questions like if we had time for puppy and if we were committed to care. We answered questions and they sent us contact that we reviewed and signed as it was straight forward. They asked for half down and the rest upon delivery. I was asked if I had Zelle or google pay. I had neither but did have Venmo so that’s the way pmt was sent. I received a fake tracking link stating puppy had been shipped and to track it with link. That afternoon got a phone call from a number in North Carolina saying they couldn’t guarantee the safety of the puppy and was put on hold until were purchased a thermal electric crate. That’s when I got suspicious so I text the seller back and he text back saying I had to buy a crate. I refused and I haven’t gotten response.

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- Jefferson, OR, USA
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They claim that they have puppies and will not take my phone calls or my request to video chat. I have asked for updated pictures of the puppies and now they are not responding at all to me

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- Columbus, NJ, USA
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wesite for great dane pups 500.00 each. I paid deposit via PayPal and made arrangements to pick up dogs. Went to address provided, no dogs. Renter that lives there said a Scam and this happens all the time. His name Was *** ****.

I filed police repost with Montgomery Coiunty Police #**********

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- Peach Bottom, PA, USA
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I was interested in a dog gave $150 through paypal, then asked for $375. I asked for vet info and vet phone # said husband would not give it. I asked for video of the dog they would not give it. Had another person Nicole Fadimatou message me and call through fb stating Kim is legit and that she got apippy from them. I am not worried about my $150 but someone else getting scammed.

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- Kissimmee, FL, USA
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Maltipoo breeder

Has legit website, sends pictures and video of puppy. I even spoke to breeder on phone once with my husband. Honestly, did not detect no red flags. Main form of contact is e-mail.. He constantly emailed me up

Until there was an issue with the crate the puppy was coming in. The carrier they used is fake.

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- Parachute, CO, USA
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Set up and paid for puppy and shipping. Than received email from supposedly shipping company that they needed 4000 for specialuzed crate. I said no and they brought it down to 1000. I said no and they offered 500 for crate. Puppy cant be shipped without this crate. Supposedly airline wont accept any other crate.

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- Conway, SC, USA
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I was looking to buy a Papillon - on line. Have it shipped to me. The above named person Tammy Renee Jenkins was contacted by myself to purchase the puppy. The price was 700.00 which I paid through Zelle - and have never received the puppy or my money back When contacted she didn't answer my questions so I got in touch with Facebook and reported her as a scammer who said my puppy was being shipped by Global Express which has been found to be a fraud also. I am out of 1280.00

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- Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Advertise a Labrador breeding service. Puppies delivered to your home or an airport near you. Email correspondence is provided in broken English. Multiple inquiries requesting the location of the business were met with increasingly hostile responses. Website is well developed and appears legit. Multiple red flags and responses kept asking me to send money. Do not fall for this scam. They will not provide you with any details about their location beyond a general geographic region or state. They also send conflicting information. Consumers beware. They’re pretty convincing.

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- Roseville, CA, USA
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I wanted to purchase a dog from the Vivi Puppies name Pretty Penny for $735. I signed a contract to purchase the dog. Dr. Clinton Starr the owner of the business ask to transfer the payment link: https//www.upwork.com/ab/flservices/. I have never heard of this site to transfer funds. I had told him that I am not comfortable using this site. So, Dr. Starr said use an Zelle account. email: [email protected] Zelle name Arial Peterson. I am not transferring fund to that email. Then he gave me another name to use in an Zelle Account: email [email protected] name Jarrell Ficklin phone number 7064669993. I am asked who are they, no response back. I told him I am very uncomfortable in transferring funds to these individual. He said he has to cancel the contract. I said Okay. He email me back and said I will do this for you if I send $500 with Zelle and $235 in cash. I told no. I said to him if he trusts me I can give the caretaker cash when you deliver my dog. He said he couldn’t do that. I said to him that I will send the funds through Zelle with his business email and it went through. He had canceled the contract.

Today I emailed him indicating that the money went through to his business email and he said the email is not register with Zelle and there isn’t any possible for us to receive your payment in a non-existent account. So please, however, you may the transaction, it didn’t reach us. Now l don’t have a dog and my money.

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- Vienna, VA, USA
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This entity used technique that pet scammer uses. They don't disclose their address. We could not see who they are. When we reached out to them to adopt a female yorkie, Shawn, they told us that they would ship the puppy via air. The cost is total $600 including the puppy. They wanted us to make a payment at either Walmart or CVS. They do not want to meet via zoom when we requested to see the puppy. They told us, they don't have iPhone, Facebook, and they do not have zoom. When we offered to send a zoom link, they said they do not do video calls. They said they are from Celina TX which we have no way to know for sure. When we emailed them with questions, we also noticed that they avoid answer all of our questions. We had to repeated the question again and again. They had some sort of transfer ownership certificate attachment. It looked fake to us. The letters are not the same. There are some faded letter areas. The worst part is that we already gave them our name, address, phone number, and email. https://www.michealteacupyorkiefamily.com/available-puppies.html is the one whom we contact. However, we also found this entity, https://johnsonteacuphome.com/yorkie-puppies/, that posted exact same the dogs' picture. It was very suspicious. Only scammers behave this way. If the entity is real, there is less likely that they will have two websites. Later we found from Whois that both website is registered at Reykjavik IS and recently registered this year in 2023. Please investigate. We found out too late. We have not lost the money, but some personal identification informations. So far, there was no harm since it happened just today. We are not sure if these people are real or fraudsters. It was just very suspicious.

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They only got information on their "application" to adopt a bird, which was only my name, address, and phone number. They have on Facebook and website rehoming of parrots. I reached out to them as they had two Electus parrots. They sent me an application and told me I was approved. I asked them to please send me a picture of a video of the parrot before I pay the $500 adoption fee and $160 transportation fee. They blocked my message after that.

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wanted to buy a puppy and saw the site , no name of person or phone # listed all business done thru email . gave them my credit card for deposit and just closed the account today. they used the address 47 west 13 st nyc . i got suspicious when they needed my drivers license. which i did not give it to them. they did a screen shot from a foreign looking record of a phone call to me , but i only have a land line no cell phone

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I sent my email address to poetichows.com which had a listing of chow puppies for sale for 600 us dollars. They told me I needed to put down 450 for reservation. Site also says they are akc certified and when i asked fir additional details they never answered back. Site is a scam do not trust!

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