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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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Fake maltipoo dog breeder. African accent.

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Purchased 2 pom puppies. Told they would be shipped same day. Then emailed and called by supposedly Continental Paws pet transport that their cages did not meet standards and would have to have electronic a/c carrier. Then this morning was notified again that the puppies were in St. Louis, Missouri at airport and that unless i paid another 3000 for pet insurance that they would get rid of puppies. Called pom puppies (carey mattox) and was told he would check into it and get back to me. I called the St. Louis airport police and they checked the entire airport. There are no puppies there.

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Heaven Sent Paws Cattery is a scammer. They work with the people who deliver pets on line such as Boothdoor Pet Delivery Service. First they ask for the form of a payment that you cannot reclaim like PayPal under family and friends or gift card cash app Zelle and etc.

There is no pet and the shipping company which in this case is Boothdoor Pet Delivery Service will start milking you as refundable funds for the environmental crate 850.00 and insurance 1500.00 and etc. Be very careful you will lose all your money for the pet and shipping. I found out when they call or text you from the pet store and shipping company is the same person you are talking to. ther are no address an no phone number in any of their sites.

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I reached out via the website on Aug 5, 2023, inquiring about the Yorkie dogs available. I provided my cell number first to communicate. Once the scammer provided pictures and answered my questions, I asked if I wanted to see the dogs before. The scammer said I needed to deposit $400 and provide the requested information on their contract/form. I provided my name and address, and that was it. Once I made a Zelle payment, the scammer asked for a screenshot; I provided a picture BUT removed the bank account information. Then, I insisted that I wanted to see the dogs before making a final commitment and balance payment for one or two dogs. The scammer provided the address to meet in Beltsville. My husband and I showed up at 11:00 am at the address. I stated that once I was in the front that I would text. The scammer insisted on asking for the balance amount to be paid before showing me the dogs. At that point, I asked via text to give me a call. The scammer asked and insisted on the final payment before showing the dogs. At that point, I txt back and said that I would only make payment once I saw the dogs. My husband saw a neighbor coming out; we asked him if the person in that house were breeders. The neighbor said he did not know them since they moved around 3 months ago. We left and reported to my bank. Upon request I can provide pics of the texts. The phone # (336) 864-0330 and seems to be a Google phone.

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Website listed parrots for sale and proposed a bird for 1700. This was done through texting and with a copy of the bill of sale.

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This is a puppy scam. They will talk to you on the phone, send pictures of the puppy, and answer your questions but they will suddenly stop responding after they have the money and you will never hear from them again or get your puppy.

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Website looked legit and listed kittens for sale. Website has reviews on the page. Scammer reaches out after filling out an inquiry form with questions to ensure the kitten will go to a safe home. Email contained photos and video of the kitten you want. The scammer has the recipient fill out a contract. Scammer asks for customer to send money via zelle. The next day the seller claims that you need to pay $1000-$2000 to make sure the cat gets to your state safely and never reaches back out. ITS ALL A SCAM!

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We were in the process of finding a puppy when we came across the bould house.com. Once I made an inquiry about one of the puppies an email chain began that the company initiated. I was told since I couldn’t pick the puppy up for an additional 2 weeks I had to place a deposit in order to keep him reserved. I paid the $400 deposit via zelle. We began purchasing all the items needed to prepare for the puppy. About a week later I reached back out trying to confirm a time we could pick up the puppy as well as additional questions. I never received a response but rather received an email saying the email was incomplete. When I went to the website the ip address was no longer found. We began doing some digging and was able to find a replica of the website but now under a different url (www.houseofarcane.com). By this point we had connected the dots figured out it was all a scam and hate to think of anyone else going through this.

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They have a website https://jblittleschnuazers.com where they are claiming to raise and sale schnauzers puppies. They request a deposit , half of what the dog’s value is, but the pictures of the dogs they are selling are stolen pics from different online platforms. I checked the website and is fake and I found the page of the owner of the dog they were trying to sell me, which is ******************, on Instagram.

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Selling puppies, selling 1/2 price, having all legit information on the breed.
Scamming puppy sales

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Contact made to purchase a dog. Money sent via Venmo. Merchant became argumentative and would but give further information regarding dog. I attempted to resolve: text and phone call attempts as well as requesting the merchant to call me, which was refused. Merchant stated they would refund but has not done so and will not respond to attempts to communicate or refund money as promised. I have all pertinent texts and documentation.

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Did you ever get your money back or get the dog?

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- Rego Park, NY, USA
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-I was contacted via text and email almost immediately

-Email contained pictures and videos of puppy

-It's the exact same website as davidbichonfrise.com but it's jamesbichonfrise.com

-Asked for payment upfront via Zelle, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay

-Claimed they were selling purebred Bichon Frise at a discount due to needing more space for new litter of puppies

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- New Castle, CO, USA
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The ‘breeder’ had puppies listed on a personal website, each for $600 +$200 shipping.

They accepted only Zelle or Cash App. I put down a $300 deposit on a puppy.

The next morning I’m told that, by mistake, that puppy had already been promised to someone, and if I wanted to finalize it to send the remaining balance asap-without having seen the dog at all, expect for some emailed photos.

I asked to choose another puppy that had not been claimed and did not need the full balance in full before receiving the dog.

We chose another and proceeded with shipping information.

I paid my balance of $500 through Cash app and was sent flight information and told the delivery agency would be in touch.

It was then emailed to me that I had to purchase an insurance policy in the amount of $1,000 (refundable 98%) before the dog could continue its journey here.

The big red flag here was that it had to be sent through Zelle or Cash app. There is no protection from either of those if you send money to a scammer. I was given the runaround, never found out anything about where this dog is, if there even was one, or how I go about anything from here. The breeder went silent and I am out $800 and have nothing to show for it.

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- Riverhead, NY, USA
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Scammer has a dog breeder website. Will only communicate through text messages and demands payment via cash apps only. When I tried to use my secured credit or debit cards they refused. They couldn’t produce any proof of puppy or medical information.

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