Everybody listen up if youre thinking about buying an english bulldog off the internet!!!
Even if you think youre not buying a dog from a foreign country, YOU ARE!!! Scammers have found out a way to get you to send money from all over the country!
Listen to this rip off:
Around 4/20/06 my dad found a cute little english bulldog puppy named Velma on a this website: www.citynews.com. The adorable puppy cost only $800.00. It seemed simple enough to buy it, but hard to read through her horrible grammer, I mean she even spelt English wrong in the title! So my dad contacted the seller, now listen this is the important part, the sellers, I mean scammers email address is, [email protected]. DO NOT EVER BUY FROM THESE CROOKS UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN FOR $800 OR MORE AND LOSE YOUR MIND!!!
Back to my story, the polite, yet illiterate seller [email protected], contacted my dad back and said, "Yes we still have the puppy, her name is Velma, she is two month old purebred english bulldog puppy ready for you to take home!" So my dad wired her the $800 to Cameroon the next day. We were supposed to get the puppy a couple days later while we would be in Dallas, Tx on vacation for my birthday.
PROBLEM #1:
The day of the pick up we received an email from another fraudulent person email address is: [email protected], saying our dog was being held in France until they got another $400.00 for shipping, shipping that WE HAD ALREADY PAID FOR WITH THE $800.00! My dad was so pissed he said, "maybe this is her scam, to make $800.00 profit and then we have to pay the $400.00 for shipping." So he tried to contact the person from [email protected], which did I forget to metion, GOES BY TWO DIFFERENT NAMES!!!???
The first name is usually uses, is Healther Nelly as in [email protected], the second is Gernadine. If you can make up a name is a stupid one like Gernadine? Anyway, in her last email she said she would be at a funeral and would not have internet service. So she left her number. An out of country one htat didnt even work. We tried to contact the Minestery of Livestock number that sent emailed to us but that turned out to be a scam too. So my dad sends another $400.00 which now ups our total loss to a grand $1,200.00!!! Still no puppy.
Over 100 emials later the scam [email protected] sends us a final email saying they needed $222.00 more to RE-ACTIVATE THE FIGHT&HELLO??!!! At that point my dad was about to have a nervous breakdown and I decided to step in. I called the police, filed reports with the internet crime devision of the FBI which is the IC3, check out www.ftc. Gov, got some good stuff on there.
I have also done a little investigating of my own and come to find out this person [email protected] is EVERYWHERE!!! I found her site on over 3 different websites!!! Www.petpages.com and www.austinchronicle.com has taken her ads off after I notified them of her scams. However, the only website that will not return my calls nor take her off is, www.citynews.com, I have called them and left 4 messages demanded that they terminate her ads, no reponse, I have posted blogs on their community bulletin, no reponse. I will now be looking forward to writing a rip off report for them as well for advocating her antics. BUT HERES THE WORST NEWS FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT THINK YOURE BUYING FROM SOMEONE IN KENTUCKY, YOU MAY NOT BE!!!
These people, and Im sure many others, have found a genius scam to advertise their fake puppies in Virgina, Long Island, Long Beach, Toronto, and on and on.in my many hours spend everyday trying to keep up with the busy little crooks, Ive found over 6 different locations they claim they are in, spanning from Cameroon, Afica, where my rip off occurred, all the way up to Toronto, Canada, and believe it all points in between! New York, California, Virginia, yep everywhere!
So beware, Ive also found 3 people that Im currently in contact with that have been labeled a sucker thanks to these HORRIBLE PEOPLE!!! Beware no matter where a breeder, i mean an email address, comes from.
You dont know these people, you dont even know if they are a man or a woman so why would you know you should send them hundreds if not thousands of dollars, wether it be by paypal, western union, or any other way of payment??? Dont buy unless you see, email pictures dont matter, go see, feel, touch, before you buy and dont get scammed like me!
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