Pets to give? Beware
My daughter and I would like to have a little dog. Preferably a Yorkshire. But our budget does not allow us for the moment. As you surely know, it’s a breed of expensive dogs. So, we decided to search on classified ads announcing race animals to give? The idea has come from a couple of friends, who have found their happiness with a young Labrador to give, announced on a classified ad site.
My daughter started doing research on different classifieds sites. She found some Yorkshires to give to finally realize that everything was often scams. We are well aware that there are scams of all kinds on the Internet. But this week we discovered one concerning the animals to give.
This is the process that these people use to scam:
They announce expensive breed dogs to give or sell at very enticing prices. They register multiple ads for the same dog, but in different cities and different countries, as well as on several classified ads. Here are the kinds of comments we can read in their descriptions: race animals to give? Healthy animals, vaccinated, vermifgested, tattooed with identification numbers, as well as up-to-date health logs. In addition, these small animals are sociable with children and other animals. For everything to be more realistic, they ask you to contact them by email to send you more photos and information about the little dog. Then, to continue to make you dream and to bother you, they ask you by email information about your family and your lifestyle to be sure that the small animal is supposedly happy and in good hands.
When you are interested in seeing the animal or getting to look for it:
This is where the second part of the scam starts. They mention that there is an error in the ad, but they are abroad for several reasons and tell you that they know a good transport company for animals and that you only have the costs transport to pay. When you accept, they give you the procedure for paying the costs incurred. I let you guess the rest with your money deposit.
Fortunately, in our case, during the email where they mentioned that they were abroad we blocked any contact. Subsequently, finding this particular method to acquire a dog, I did some research on dogs to give and cheaply to see quite quickly reading on the blogs that it was a pretty common practice, and That, around the world.
It’s still possible to find a dog to give or buy cheap prices on the site of the classified ads, the proof is that our couple of friends, found one. But before shelling, it is better to have the animal in your arms.
If you have witnessed an internet scam, do you say that a cybercrime is a crime in the same way as a flight or aggression. You can complain about your municipal police service or the safety of Quebec