Another Scam
 

So I was looking on Craigslist and came across one ad that said: free t-cup yorkie. Well first I laughed, then I said well I want to see what they are going to say so I hurried up and wrote them back before they got flagged and told them I wanted the free t-cup....lol anyways they wrote me back with this:

hi,
Thanks for your mail regarding my puppy and below are her pictures. She is 12weeks of age and has a spunky personality.Meet delicate, precious, feisty, curious, little micro T-cup Nina. I know I know, those adjectives are not usually used in the same sentence. However they best describe our little "diva" Nina. She truly is oh soooo tiny and delicate, yet she has a "larger than life" personality. Nina has a feisty, "stand her ground" attitude to get her toy or your attention. No doubt Nina will melt hearts where ever she goes. Her stunning appearance will be the first to be noticed and then her whimsical feisty attitude will be the clincher. You will simply sit back and laugh at her funny shenanigans! Nina is a pure bred Yorkshire terrier, She weighs only 2/3 of a lb and it is espected to be 6lbs at full growth.she is health guaranteed and registered,vet checked.she is up to date on all her shots and will be coming along side her health papers and vet records .I am located in Cameroon.Please may i ask you a few questions?where are you located?are you a breeder?do you have kids?Do you have other pets?below is an attachment of Nina's pictures.i just hope you will love her.please also assure me that you will take good care of her.i will be waiting for your mail asap.
thanks


I just wrote them back and told them I live in the USA and everything they asked then said "so all I have to do is pay for the shipping?" I'm waiting for a response if i'll even get one. Here's the pictures they attached with the e-mail. And I know i've seen these pictures before, probably because its a SCAM!! Right when I finished writing them I went back to flag the posting and somebody already had....thanks goodness.

That litttle baby is precious .It is a shame that someone would exploit her :eek: I am glad it was flagged! People like that piss me off. :mad:

Yeah...that Camroon scam has been around for awhile. Now this creep thinks you've taken the bait, and he's probably going to e-mail you to death...forever. Good luck.

I have a confession
 

I actually was so stupid,that last christmas there was a offer for two maltese pups for $300.00 . The person actually told me her phone number and e-mail address...I never thought it was a scam,she said she was in a church missionary and had to move with them to Africa and it was too hot and just wanted to re-home them together.All I had to pay was shipping. She actually called me and gave me her church secretary name and everything to send the wired money to. She e-mailed pictures and videos of them....LOL I, like a fool wired my kids christmas money to her ...he..... IT!!!! LESSON LEARNED!!!! My birthday is the day after christmas,and I cried all day. It was devastating. I reported her . She spelled her name (ROBBIN With 2 B"s) and when I goggled it, it was a scam and had happened to several people. I will never be so ignorant again.

Don't worry, that little pup probably belongs to someone else. These scam artists just steal pictures; there are actually no dogs, involved, thank goodness. I had to laugh when they said she weighed 2/3 of a pound, because that really is a little "little micro T-cup."

So they just wrote me back, what should I write back and say?? Any suggestions??

Here is what they wrote:

HELLO,
I AM VERY GLAD TO READ FROM YOU SO SOON.NINA IS A VERY GOOD PET,THAT WILL LIKE TO DO AS YOU WILL SAY,SHE LISTENS TO COMMAND AND ,SHE ALSO LIKE TO WALK AND PLAY TOO WITH KIDS AND OTHER PETS.SHE LOVES TO SLEEP WITH PEOPLE AND ALSO LOVE TO BE CARRIED IN THE HANDS.SHE IS SWEET LOVING AND SHE MAKES A GREAT COMPANION AND I ASSURE YOU THAT SHE WILL CAPTURE YOUR HEART WITH LOVE. I KNOW THAT NINA WILL BE VERY GLAD TO CHANGE A HOME.THE REASON THAT I WILL LIKE TO ADOPT NINA OUT IS
BECAUSE OF MY WORKING CONDITIONS,MY WORKING HOURS ARE TOO MUCH FOR ME AND I HAVE NO TIME FOR HER ,ALSO THE WEATHER AND CLIMATIC CONDITION HERE IN MY LOCATION IS NOT GOOD FOR HER LIVING WHICH MIGHT MAKE HER SICK AND I DON'T WANT HER TO SUFFER AND ALSO I WANT HER EVER HAPPY.SO I JUST WISH YOU WILL GIVE HER A GOOD,CARING AND LOVING HOME.I WILL SHIP NINA TO YOU FROM CAMEROON AND WILL TAKE 9HOURS TO GET TO YOUR LOCATION.AND ALL THAT YOU WILL PAY IS THE SHIPPING FARE.AND I ASSURE YOU THAT AS SOON AS YOU DO THAT,I WILL IMMEDIATELY BOOK HER FLIGHT AND SHIP HER TO YOU OK.I WILL ALSO NEED TO KNOW YOUR SHIPPING
INFORMATION,INFO
FULL NAMES.....
PHONE#......
CITY/STATE.......
NEAREST AIRPORT TO YOUR HOME......
HOUSE/STREET#.......
I SHALL BE HAPPY IF YOU PROVIDE THIS INFO,SO WE CAN PROCEED IN PREPARING HER TRAVELING PAPERS,AS FOR THE SHIPPING COST TO THE U.S .IT WILL COST YOU $120 AND YOU SHALL TAKE CARE OF THAT WHILE I SHALL TAKE CARE OF HER PAPER WORK AND CAGE TO TRAVEL WITH.I WILL ALSO LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT SHE WILL BE DELIVERED TO YOU RIGHT AT YOUR HOME.ALL I HOPE IS THAT YOU TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF HER.IF YOU CAN PROMISE YOU WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER I WILL GIVE HER TO YOU FOR FREE OKAY. I WAIT TO READ FROM YOU.ASAP
THANKS.

Oh and did you notice they said it will take 9 hours to get to you....I said I live in the USA, I could be in New York or California!! LOL!!

I hate to see scams now on craigs list. I am always on there looking for exercise equpmient:thumbdown

It is definitely a hard lesson learned:( I, personally, was always too scared to buy anything over the internet. If I couldn't see it in person, then I didn't buy it. It has only been recently that I have actually started buying stuff off of ebay. I really don't like paying for something before I actually get it.

I would flag their ad, but I would not respond to these people, you have given them a valid e-mail address, and they can sell that. You are likely to be dealing with a computer, and not to many "real" people. These scam artists work on percentage. If just a tiny percentage fall for it, they made out well, after all, what's there real costs? Most the places they advertise are free. Here's a link to identifing scammers, and what to do if you find one: Identify and Avoiding the Cameroon Pet Scammers: Master Scammer E-Mail List

I also noticed that the grammar and sentence structure differ greatly between the first and the second emails. I almost wonder if the first email was what someone else wrote about a puppy, and they copied that. Their second email may have been written by them.

$120 to ship?

From Cameroon?

Directly to your door?

I don't think so!:mad:

In my local paper..
 

Someone ran an ad in the local paper the other day...
and when they contacted me it was this similar scam. I hate they got my email... I told them I couldn't help them...
It is a shame these scam artist...just a shame...to scam people.:thumbdown

That's exactly what they do now, since people here in the States are catching on to this Camaroon scam. They have had to evolve...or get better to fool people. This clown most likely stole the pups discription word for word from the very ad he stole the pics from.

FULL NAMES.....Ms. Fed Bure Inves
PHONE#......(202) 324-3000
CITY/STATE....... NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
NEAREST AIRPORT TO YOUR HOME......Dulles
HOUSE/STREET#.......935 Pennsylvania Avenue,

I nearly fell for a scam like this. I contacted the police and told them about the advert, the site it was on, and described the advert.

The police put a warning in the newspapers, and the adverts were removed from the site. I say adverts, because there were many pets advertised.