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Originally Posted by lilmrsellis  A girl I work with was looking for a Yorkie. She saw an ad in the Lexington Herald for a puppy. It only had an email address. When she emailed, the lady said she had sold the puppy to an American missionary. She gave the girl I work with his email address. He said he is in South Africa and wants to sell the puppy because it is too hot for it. The girl said, "I think this is a scam, will you look at it?" When I did, it was certainly a scam! The language was not remotely that of an American. I was just like one of those letters telling you The King of Nimibia died and you are his long lost cousin. She called the newspaper and they said, they get those at least once a month. Pet scams need to be publicized more often. Has anyone else had a similar incident? |
Yes I had this happen to me where they said the puppies were free and I had to pay a shipping cost and other stuff like that.
I wasn't sure about it and posted info on my car forum and someone told me to look out because there were scams around like that. Sure enough I called the internet police and reported it. Not sure how far it got. But they looked into my email acct to find the domain and such info.
Normally they have bad grammar and can't spell. Always inquire before sending $$ over the net. They also didn't have large photos to email me of the pups so this put up a flag for me!!