[Fraud|Popular Frauds|Popular Scams|Scams] [Information|Data] And Prevention [Methods|Techniques]

From the time a person is a child they develop a love for pets. Even adults love pets, and most people have a dog or cat at some point in their lives as a companion. Unfortunately, there are pet scammers who are quick to use people’s love of animals to cheat them.

Puppy mills are held by several con artists around the world. Sellers receive these animals from brokers through shipping. Internet ads are then put up by the sellers, attracting buyers who take their word for it.

When they’re advertising on the internet there’s usually a picture of a very cute or pretty animal. The puppy is always touted as a purebred with championship abilities, and an extremely high price tag. The purchase always requires money up front. The scam is that when the animals arrives, IF it ever arrives, it will not be the same one in the picture.

Pet scammers will claim that the animal is fully up on their shots and are in good health in their ads. However, the dogs buyers get often die not long after they get there. Do not plan on buying any live animals for a source you cannot certify as being legitimate.

In many cases the pet purchaser sends the money for an animal pictured on the Internet. In reality, there is no animal at all and the money is gone. People have lost hundreds and thousands of dollars in this way as purebred champions are very expensive. It would do you well to use cell-registry.com/620/662/ or another telephone look up service to test the validity of the claims these sellers are making, and to see if it’s a scam.

There is one variant of the pet scam that claims that the dog has to be shipped from out of the country, and asks for money to cover shipping. The scammer then keeps the money and never sends a pet. The buyer can do absolutely nothing to recover the money.

Pet scammers have many stories to tell that sound legitimate. Stories often revolve around abandoned pets from people who love their animal, but can no longer keep the pet. People overseas who have to give up their pet for various reasons are also a current story. Of course, all of these situations require money up front.

The best way to avoid pet scammers is to know who the pet is being purchased from. If possible, a buyer needs to look at the animal’s parents and view the prospective pet in person. Trying to purchase from an unknown here or overseas is just looking for trouble. It’s not hard at all to get in contact with perfectly legitimate breeders. Don’t trust any sort of transaction that asks for money before the product.