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? asked in PetsDogs · 1 decade ago

Craigslist bull dog scam?

It was under pet adoption. This person who claims to be a priest and had to move to Africa says he's giving away two purebred English bulldog pups. You just have to send him shipping! Yes I know English Bulldog is not a breed. But that is what they are called in the US. So not to mistake them for American bulldogs. A much larger breed. Anyway. Its a scam.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    100% scam.

    There is no dog.

    There are stolen pictures of someone else's dog.

    There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

    The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "pet shipping company" and will demand you pay for shipping fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

    Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

    Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

    You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

    Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

    Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

    If you google "Cameroon pet scam", "fake puppy sale scam Western Union" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

  • 1 decade ago

    Anybody with half a brain knows that this scam has been around for years. Also, the Bulldog is just called a Bulldog in the US. That's what it's registered as by the AKC, so you are sadly mistaken about that issue.

    http://www.akc.org/breeds/bulldog/

  • Ocimom
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yep - one of the many "Africa" scams. There is no puppy. People send money and the "person" disappears with the money, no dog is shipped and the person is out whatever they asked for. Unfortunately it must be a good one if its still "making money" on innocent and nieve people!

  • 1 decade ago

    I'ts a scam - google Cameroon puppy scam. This scam has been around more than a decade but for some reason people still fall for it

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  • 1 decade ago

    100% a scam.

    The same story was listed in the classified ads in our local paper.

    I emailed them asking for a friend, seeing as the price seemed "too good" and my friend, well, let's just say she's not the brightest.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    A scam for sure.

    Never fall for shady stuff like that, never send any money.

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