Send me your bank Info so I can send money
 

Do these idiots actually believe the people selling pups are stupid enough to send all information where they live, phone number, all banking information to them? It is always the same like...I live in the UK , I live in France, I live (as far away as possible) I will send a cheque. Give me a break.
Or this line: " My shipping agent will contact you for all your personal information and detail as to where to send your "product" not even the word puppy or yorkie used and we have gotten the one about the Reverend so and so who is at a missionary right now but wants the puppy sent to his lonely wfie...*headshake*

Imagine that no Yorkies in Yorkshire England...lol

people amaze me everyday, i swear. I put a ad out on craigslist.com and petfinder.com for my boyfriend, his psyco ex wife let his yorkie/chihuahua Scamp lose, and he just found out. well, i had some idiot email me saying they had the dog, and wanted to make arrangements for me to come pick the dog up at the airport! :mad: then they proceed to tell me that they are going to do something to the dog since i wouldnt give any info to them...i am a nice person, but when you threat something like that, i was heated! I went ahead and told them, that first of all they are sick for making a scam out of a missing animal, and that they need to learn to speak/type proper english! grrr...people are so rude sometimes!

:2omg: WOW! It is really a shame that there is so many people out there trying so hard to scam people. It sounds like these people were trying to steal your I.D. I'm glad you knew this was bad news and were able to protect yourself, there are still people out there who would willing give up their information to strangers!

I wonder if you can some how report these people???

That is so F****d up! :mad:

Oh, I tried to do that...but I couldnt figure out how to do it :thumbdown
the people that emailed me with that, even had another person email me posing as the transportation people for the airport, and i was like you should be arrested...those emails stopped real quick after i said that......

that does seem pretty odd, doesnt it!? he he :rolleyes:

That is just pure EVIL! what kind of person not only tries to scam a person who just lost something they love, and then go on to say they would hurt the animal if you didnt comply...I could think of somethings i would like to see happen to these people, and arrested isnt one of them!

People make me sick!

Oh, I was so fired up reading those emails! My boyfriend was like Hunni, I have NEVER seen this side of you! ha ha! I don't like when people threat things like that.....and they were telling me I'm not a decent person! can you believe that!?

there are alot of sick people in this world, unfortunately we cant stop it.
how sad is that?

These scams are getting old really fast. They must be sucking in some people though, or they wouldn't keep doing it. Shame on them.

For lack of better words, i think some people "get off" by doing stuff like this, its sickening......

That is so many things, but disgusting came to mind first. I'm so glad we are all educated enough on what to look for with these scammers. :mad:

I just don't understand why people do this? let alone with animals!?

wow!! are you serious?!!!?!! yea that would have pissed me off beyond belief! you sound like me... i'm an all-around calm, cool, and collected person, but when it comes to people taking advantage of other people, children, and/or animals.... the beast in me comes out! i refuse to treat those kind of people with courtesy and respect!!!

I wish i was kidding about this one! yes, I kept getting emails from this person, they gave me two numbers to call, which first of all they were like 14 digits long, and they kept insisting that it was a real number. I just dont think people should be aloud to do things like this, but sad to say, this is the world we live in... :mad::thumbdown

I can't tell you how many emails I've got telling me some guy has "Found a great new job for me!" I'm also the proud winner of the "Royal Spanish Lottery," but I didn't collect my millions because I couldn't bring myself to give out ALL of my personal information. Hahahah, people are always trying to find a way to scam whoever they can. :thumbdown

Not everybody does things the way we do them in the US.

For example, if you wanted to telephone me, you would have to dial 14 digits...something like this: 011 27 21 555 1212. The 011 puts you into the international dialing ability of your phone service; 27 is my country code; 21 is my city code; 555 1212 represents my personal telephone number. South Africa uses 7 digits for telephone numbers, but not all countries do. I have called people in other nations who have only 5 or 6 digits for their telephone numbers, but I still had to dial the international access, country and city codes.

The request for banking information is actually legitimate. I have been in South Africa for five years and have not written one check since I got here. Everybody pays their bills through EFT (electronic funds transfer). Just this morning I paid the groomer R180 (about $18) for grooming the two maltese on Tuesday...via EFT. We have debit orders on file with the bank for the house payments (and before the cars were paid off, we had one for them, too), and pay everyone from the plumber to the maid via EFT. This is a NORMAL way of doing business outside the US.

To set your mind at ease, the banking information needed to do an EFT is no more than the info that is printed on your checks: account number, branch name and number, bank's number. Where you have to watch out is to see how the money is provided for the EFT: if the person sending the money goes to the bank and pays cash, the EFT will be fine; if he submits a check, it could be a bad check and the bank will debit your account later; if it comes directly from their bank account to yours, it will be OK because the bank won't transfer money that does not exist in the account.

How do you find this out? demand that the buyer email you a "proof of payment." If he goes to the bank and sends from there, he will have a receipt that he can fax or scan and email...that bank receipt will specify if he paid the bank with cash or check. If it was transferred directly from his account to yours, the bank will email him a receipt for the transfer, which he can then email to you.

I do freelance internet research for medical professionals and I email my invoices and receive my payment via EFT...they always send me the bank-provided "proof of payment."

These proofs of payment can be faked, however, so if you do business with an overseas client, I recommend that you hold off shipping the dog until 30 has passed. It is unlikely that there will be a reversal of charges after that time, and you don't want to ship a really, really young puppy anyway.

One caveat: there is an EFT scam going around...a client of mine was targeted: A man called to make an appointment for his wife and asked if he could pay for the visit in advance via EFT. My client quoted him R300. He transferred R16,800 into her account! Then he called to say an error had been made and could she transfer back to him R13,800, the excess amount. Within days his deposit of R16,800 had bounced as the check he had put in at the bank was no good. Overpaying and demanding an immediate refund of the excess is a common EFT scam, so if you use EFT (in the US it is sometimes referred as a "wire transfer") don't refund any money or send out a puppy until at least 30 days has passed.

Just remember...there are other legitimate ways of doing business than the ways we are familiar and comfortable with in the US.

I think we live very close to one another :D
I live in Blouberg!

Angie, I live in Flamingo Vlei!

Is that close to me? Its around the corner isnt it?

Yup! Check your private messages...I sent you one with my email addy in it

Woops sorry for changing the subject a tad guys :o

I got your mail, sent you an email already :p

You know, I have always wanted to go to South Africa! That is so cool you live there!!!! :aimeeyork:thumbup:

Dara, you should come visit. It is a fabulous place...and MUCH cheaper then the US, both to live and to visit!

South Africa is really beautiful. Lots of beaches etc. I lived in UK for two years but there is no place like home :-)

I may have to check that out then!!!!! =):aimeeyork

Inform the police fraud division
 

Take all the e-mails to the cops.

Cyn, I live in South Africa and if you wanted to telephone me, you would have to dial 14 digits.

If you wanted to sell me a puppy and you didn't take credit cards or have a PayPal account, I would ask for your banking information so that I could send the money via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which is a common means of payment outside the US.

The points Dara mentions are perfectly legitimate outside the US, and if the emails don't have anything more incriminating that a standard-length overseas dialing sequence and a request for information to do a wire transfer of funds, the police will not take her seriously.