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- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Was promised an English Bulldog (girl) for agreed of $950. After making full payment Breeder demanded another $450. After refusing to pay additional payment breeder refused to refund the $950 after agreeing to refund the amount. Everything was handled via Facebook Messenger.

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- Berrien Springs, MI, USA
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Looking legitimate website, went through a seemingly legitimate process. Became sketchy when it came time for shipping. Used Google Pay, Chime, Apple Pay, and PayPal

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- Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
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He claims he is a breeder of Chow Chows. No proof of pups. Claims it’s the law to give him money for said puppies before he will give any info

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- Thompsons Station, TN, USA
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We were looking for a new puppy and thought we had found the best one for our family for Christmas. The scammer requested a down payment of $500 to reserve the puppy and on the date he was supposed to ship/arrive they asked for the rest of the payment. He was “coming through a delivery service” and arriving to our residence which seemed awesome. They gave us a tracking number and this website:

https://gfshipping-center.com/track/

The tracking number worked so it seemed very legit. He was supposed to arrive at 10pm. When it was 11:30pm I contacted them via email and text. They responded very quickly but didn’t seem to be too worried about a missing dog. Fast forward to the next morning I decided to do some research because I had a weird feeling. And now here I am. Wishing I would have researched more before I purchased. But we were so excited for our Christmas puppy.

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- Mount Rainier, MD, USA
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I emailed PURE SIAMESE CATS & KITTENS HOME to inquire about a cat. The listed price was $400. They asked for my information, such as my address, local vet, , how soon do I need him, etc. I answered all of their questions but found is suspicious that that anytime I had questions, they were ignored. Suddenly the price jumped from $400 to $600 to have the cat send from NC to MD. I sent them a final email inquiring about the cats' parents, was the cat spayed/neutered, was the cattery registered to any clubs and they ignored it. I believe they got suspicious and stopped answering me. They said they were located in Charlotte, NC on Dogwood Ave and few hours later I found a complaint from another woman who was scammed by them as well. They went under another name before ([email protected]) and they scammed this woman out of $700. The information they gave her is the exact same information they gave me. You can read her complaint here. https://www.scampulse.com/uniquecoonzcatterycom-reviews. I'm 100% positive these are the same people under a different name.

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- Bristow, VA, USA
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I was looking to buy or adopt a siamese or himalayan kitten and came acrooss this website: https://siamesekittenzforsale.com/available-kittens

There was no phone number listed so the only way to get in touch was to send a message. DROP US A LINE! WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. CHOOSE YOUR KITTEN BY NAME AND SEND US A MESSAGE BY FILLING OUT THE FORM BELOW AND WE WILL GET BACK WITH YOU SHORTLY.

Read email below I received from [email protected] (they also included some pictures of Twinky)

Thanks for the interest in our kitten, Twinky is ready for a new home. She has been recently Vet-checked & 100% Healthy, Current on shots, Very playful, and home trained ( Litter Box Trained ), All our cats are tested negative for PKD, FELV and FIV, Reason why we offer a one-year health guarantee and also offer free lifetime support and advice for all customers especially first-time cat owners to ensure your kitten is healthy and has a long life expectancy for the love and concern we have for all our litters and also recommend a constant update of all our kittens in their new homes to be sure they are well taken care of,

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE KITTEN

Name: Twinky

Breed: Siamese

Sex: Female

Age: 10 Weeks

Price: $400

Purebred: Yes

Tested Negative

MICROCHIP AVAILABLE (NEED TO BE IMPLANTED)

1 YEAR HEALTH GUARANTEE

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

Additional information: Absolutely ADORABLE,

Twinky is a very pleasant kitten to have as a companion. She's quick in learning and gets along very well with kids of all ages, she is easy going, and loves to climb on my laps when watching tv. Twinky is a fiercely loyal, loving kitten and will attach herself to every one of her family members. She loves to play, She doesn't need hourly attention. If she is in the mood to play, she will find someone and start pushing her toy or just bring a toy to that person. She also plays well by herself and she is a good companion for single people too.

ADOPTION REQUIREMENTS!!!

Getting a good home for Twinky is the most essential thing we want. So we only have a few questions for you and we will appreciate you getting back to us with the answers sincerely to the following inquiries below so we can proceed, Hope you don't mind? This is just to be sure your house can make a good home for her.

-Where precisely are you located?

-Have you ever raised or owned a kitten before?

-Do you have a vet clinic in your area?

-Does your environment accept pets?

-How soon do you need her?

We are sorry for the questions, it's just that we prefer a caring family, as the answers would help us to know if your home would be the best place for her as all we need is just a new loving and caring home for the baby.

We would also like to let you know that we do NOT place any of our kittens in homes that will practice unprofessional breeding for Money making with little or no love and caregiving to them. All our kittens are re-homed for PET PURPOSES ONLY. So as long as you can make us understand that you will share the love in your home with the kitten, we will consider placing our kitten in your home.

***Best Regards

***God Bless You........

So I did fill out the application and gave my information...and then comes the second email this time with a video of Twinky attached.

Hello......

Sorry for the late reply due to some network problems, thank you so much for your reply and answers to my questions, After a keen thought and consideration, We have found your home the best for this kitten, Also the Kitten comes along with the following:

# Health Certificate.

# 1 year health guarantee

# Complete medical record

# Crate

# Playing toys

# A Kitten kit starter

#Food Sample & Feeding Manual

# And a hand guide that will help you with the basics of taking good care of the Kitten.

So to proceed further, you have to provide us with your information for us to prepare the sales contract document and they are the same information that will be used at the Airline to register your Kitten as the receiver's information.

- Your Full Names........................ ?

- Full Home Address.................... ?

-State, City and Zip Code.................... ?

-Contact Phone Number and Alternate if Available.................... ?

-Name of Nearest Airport to you.................... ?

We are located here in Charlotte, NC. Address: "Dogwood Ave Charlotte" Once i received your complete shipping information, i will send you my details for you to make the payment so that i will be able to complete the transfer ownership , adoption papers and other documents to your name and also pay for the shipping fee of your Kitten at the courier service. This process can take me about 2-3 hours after which the courier service will contact you with the full flight tracking number so that you will know the departure time from here and schedule time of arrival at your location airport as well as home delivery time because you will need to be at home to sign the papers and collect the kitten,

NOTE...The total for everything with shipping you included is ($600) and Nothing more. Attached is a video of Twinky

Thanks and waiting for your response

Best Regards

God Bless You........

I started to get suspicious of why I wasn't getting a reply to any of the text messages I sent after they sent me a message letting me know that an email was sent to me and to check my inbox. It was then, that I decided to search their number 704-943-3131 and got a hit. They are Scammers!! Please be aware and do not share any info... I really hope they are held accountable for what they are doing.

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- Round Lake, IL, USA
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First I sent $500 Phillips Phillips to purchase a Cockatoo. Then the Cockatoo was shipped, a few hours after the invoice was created, I got an email with urgent message that $999.00 needed immediately to deposit pets insurance…..that’s was the start of the suspicious, then I’m talking to the sender, Phillip and he assured me that just sent it to them because he doesn’t want any bad happens to the little cockatoo. I want the bird so I Zelle them the $999.00 after insta pets received $999.00 through Zelle, the second email indicating that the parrot cannot ship because it require $1500 for cite permits and they want money right away through Zelle again. I fell for it for the second email because the sender Phillip had already paid $500 for the $1500 that was required so he ask me to sent another $1000 so that I can get the pet soon but I can’t send it to insta pets delivery company because at that point, my trust with insta pet was gone. So Phillip told me I can Western Union his wife, Kishia Ayuk the $1000. At that point I still trust him because he have sent me his ID front n back. Do after they got the lat $1000 from me this morning, in the evening insta pet delivery or Phillip it may be same group sent me another urgent email that the parrot need a box in order for them to ship and the cheapest box is $500 that I must Zelle them right now as I’m typing this

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- Brookfield, WI, USA
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I searched for a ragdoll cat using google and up popped these sites. The websites and ads looked real and were on Google, so I trusted them. I paid $650 for a kitten plus $150 shipping and expected to receive my kitten. But then they said that due to the weather conditions there was a problem and they asked for a $2000 deposit for shipping.

I lost $800already and at that point I stopped paying for other costs.

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- Norman, OK, USA
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Today, I was searching for adoptable basset hounds, and found the website *************************, which I shared with my fiance. We found a dog we both really liked, and send an email with my name and phone number requesting more information. I received a text confirming they had seen our request, and that they had emailed me information and questions about us to see if we would be a good match for the puppy (******). The email came from the address *************************************. When I sent the email, we promptly received confirmation that we would be a good fit, and all we needed to do was to pay the adoption fee of $900 and we would be on our way to creating a contract for adoption. I had difficulty sending money, as all of the apps that I had warned that there was a potential scam. Not realizing that this was actually true, I send $250 to the phone number *************** after several attempts through Apple Pay. I attempted to send the remaining money over through a Zelle connection to jean rose (the name I was given) with my bank, but was unsuccessful. The Zelle account was registered to **** ****** at ************************ I had multiple CashApp failures sending money to ***** **** ** ************* and fraud warnings, and finally purchased gift cards for Apple to send the remaining $650 that we owed. As soon as the money was sent to the phone number , we were then asked to send another $1500, $1600, or $1800 to pay for the crate to ship the dog to us. This is when I realized that I had gotten scammed, and decided we should back out and request a refund. This is also the time that I requested assistance from my fiance to help communicate with the alleged breeders of the dog. The payment of shipping was not mentioned in the email or on their website. The website says that the shipping of the puppy would be free. My fiance (using my phone), then asked what services they used to send the dog from Minnesota to Oklahoma, and they said "runway or delta". They said they would provide us with a tracking number and flight number, then requested us to "please can you choose the crate so we can get this done so we puppy can leave on time". We asked if we could pick the puppy up in person, and said if not, we would like a refund and apologized for the inconvenience. They replied with "Is not possible". We asked what was not possible, then they responded that they will have to resell the puppy before we could get our refund and stated that when they resold the dog, we will get our money. They stated that they were disappointed and angry, and we said that we would report them to the police. They asked what for, and we replied that we requested a refund for the $900 total we had sent or provide information to pick up the dog in person. We also stated that if it was a scam, we had started the process of reporting them to the authorities. They responded with "If am a scammer am sure you will find so many bad references about me online" then followed with a picture of a stuffed travel crate with a dog toy and blanked saying that was the bag packed to send with the puppy. We replied with, "If you are not a scammer, why are you holding $900 of money I just sent you for a dog you will not allow me to come pick up". They said "Okay if you can refund me the $400 i paid for shipping you can come pick up" and "that is not refundable so if you can refund me the $400 you can come pick up the puppy whenever you are ready". I will reiterate in saying that there was no mention of a non-refundable deposit on the website, nor in any email correspondence or text before this moment. We replied with "Send me the address to pick up the dog, and I will bring $400 cash. I am not sending any more money without proof that this isn't a scam." They replied with "Am ready to send you a video of the puppy and also vet records of the puppy". We said :If you are not able to provide a refund or a pickup address, I'm assuming you've stolen $900 and will return to reporting this". They said "Nope you have to send the $400 now and you can sign your contract as proof of payment", then sent us an address and asked us to stop threating them. They then said "If the $400 is not sent i will look for someone else to get the puppy so i can refund your money". We asked "Why can you not just send my money back? If you're stealing my money or not providing a dog for me, I'm going to report this as fraud and theft". They replied "When the puppy is sold you will get your money back". We asked "Why does that have to happen? I sent money today - please send it back; I didn't have to sell a dog to give you money". They replied with "Everything was already done". We requested proof of what was done, to which they responded " Registration and everything was done already which is not refundable and i told you already" and "and if you keep calling me names will get my lawyer involved". We had not called anyone any names, and were simply requesting proof that this entire purchase was not a scam.

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- Wappingers Falls, NY, USA
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They are set up online as a ferret breeder, they asked $350 for 2 ferrets thru venmo. Once paid they needed additional funds for shipping and crating. Than they told my son they need money for veterinary services and a release from customs at JFK. They continued to come up with more reasons to collect money. Once he stopped paying they refused to refund him money or give him any proof of his purchase. We have 3 of their venmo account information now they have said hes not getting his money or the ferrets. I have all the text messages showing they were intent on selling him ferrets and also text where we verified they lied about locations and vetting and customs and venmo reports showing they basically are laughing that they got his money and he got nothing. I reported them to venmo fraud services.

BBB notes: If you feel you are a victim of an online pet or pet  transportation scam, ScamPulse.com encourages you to file a complaint and/or customer review at www.bbb.org/Norfolk, with the Virginia Attorney General's office at https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint, as well as report your experience to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov and the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov.

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- Maryville, TN, USA
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This was a refundable down payment to purchase a cat. She tried to get more money after we agreed on a price. We told her we wanted the deposit back and she refused to do that.

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- Canutillo, TX, USA
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I wanted to ourchase a maltese puppy. The scammers emailed me the total cost would be $900. I wired $500 on Zelle ant the account that I was told to wire the money to was Douglas Johnson [email protected]. they emailed me that they never received the money. They gave me a phone number 915-243-6535. I called on several occasions and every time I got the voice message recording. I left my call back number many times and never hot a call back. I became suspicious and emailed them I didn't want the dog and I wanted my money back. After I sent that email I got an email saying that they recived the $500. They also sent the wire transfer information fir the other$400. The name and email were different from the information I got for the $500 transfer. The $400 transfer was to Dora Gillis [email protected]. I sent several emails stating that I didn't want the puppy I just wanted my $500 returned to me. I haven't heard from them since

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I might be able to help you but I don't know the best way to give you my contact info without it being public. Any Suggestions?

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- Fremont, CA, USA
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Meet him on FB under orientalshorthair administrator. We then communicated thru messenger. He sent me photos, transfer of ownership. I Zelle him down payment thru Zelle under he claimed to be his wife. He did not want to FaceTime me but contacted me again at the planned delivery. I got email and delivery notice asking to pay for safer crate of $2000.00. He said it’s refundable. I called the company’s number but it was a suspicious voice.i then demanded a refund. He took himself out on FB so as his other contact. I reported scam on FB

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- Fremont, CA, USA
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Found him on Facebook under Oriental shorthair kitten, He communicated thru messenger, sent pictures of kitten. Ask money thru Zelle as down payment . When I sense of suspicious I regretted that I Zelle the money instead of PayPal which should have secured me better. The following time he ask money, I told him I can do it thru PayPal for goods but I said no as if friends and family you can’t redeem your money back. He uses different account which he claim are relatives. On time of delivery, he send me confirmation from the delivery company asking for $2000.00 for safety crate. He gave me El Paso area code when I called it was a suspicious accent.

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- Brandon, MS, USA
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My mom and I thought we were getting a teacup size female Persian kitten for $550 and then $150 to ship her. Tammy Coppoletta was the alleged breeder and sent me a contract that I had to sign and send back to her once I purchased the kitten. A video of the kitten and the alleged shipping company called Continental Logistics Movers. A tracking number to track her and it all seemed to be legit. Then I get a text from the Continental movers stating that in order to get her here safely that I needed to pay them $1600 to get here. I told them that was wrong. They said it was 100% refundable and they could only take payment of PayPal or Venmo. I texted the breeder and she states that she’d pay $800 if I could pay the remaining. I then knew something wasn’t right. So we start looking to see if Continental Logistics was a legit shipping company. No it wasn’t. Then all went wrong. We requested a refund and she denied it. Second attempt to get money back she takes her Venmo account down.

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- Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Offered Kittens for sale. Asked for money to be Zelled and only then gave contract. Set up delivery through PetExpressTransport where another $1500 was asked for an air conditioned crate when transport was already paid for. No kitten delivered. No refund given. Would not agree to have personal pickup of kitten.

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- Odessa, TX, USA
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Contacted Scammer through website about purchasing a kitten. Website looked very legit. Paid deposit and shipping contract was emailed to me. However, after payment of deposit I found 3 other websites with photos of same kittens all with different names etc...also did an image search and found images were from 2022. Emailed scammer back with proof of websites and received a generic response. Asked for vet records and other info concerning kitten and was told it would all be included with shipment.

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- Newcomerstown, OH, USA
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Selling cats on line. When we contacted them, they were very pushy. They wanted the money to be sent in cryptocurrency, and they claimed the "sale" went off at 8:00 P.M. on November 24, but as of November 25, the "sale" is still on the website. Sounds like a pet scam to us.

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- Champaign, IL, USA
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We were trying to purchase a puppy online. Saw one on a website that seemed reputable, everything took place over email for the conversation part. When it came to payment they asked for transfer via chime bank or zelle. We have sent them $900 which was for both the puppy and shipping cost (700 pup, 200 shipping) however once we recieved notice that the puppy had been dropped to the carrier service and sent tracking information to another website which also seems like a scam (no phone number, only live chat that turns into a email) we were informed "due to weather" the dog will require a ac crate which was going to cost another 1,600-2,000. They said the payment will be refunded cash upon delivery of the pup qt rhe airport which makes no sense. They linked the address to a breeder of who has good ratings, upon further review i gave that breeder a call and they let us know that we arent the first ones that this has happened to.

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- Keosauqua, IA, USA
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Add for Bernese mountain puppies, sent long information on business and was very personable. Offered to meet half way to pick up puppy said they had someone to deliver to our door for a small fee. Got suspicious when they said would contact back with delivery information and never received back. Not able to money back.

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