When I was looking for a puppy I ran across a scam similiar to that one. It was a missionary supposedly living in India. It was in our local newspaper and they said they purchased three puppies from their home town in Kansas before they moved and could not keep them. They also said something about not being able to sell them in India because there were not loving families there (whatever that means). They sent pictures of very cute and very small yorkies and said they were free. He said that I would need to pay for the shipping of the dog which he would take care of after I sent him $500.
When I said that I was not comfortable with that he gave me a website of the shipping company which had endless gramatical errors and didn't make any sense.
I work for a bank and get trained on all sorts of scams so I recgonized it right away but I worry too about people that might fall for these! |