The email I received:
Thanks for answering my question. I am very much happy to read back from you so soon. Actually, i will be willing to provide these babies/baby to you, which you will be responsible just for the shipping fee.For you to have one puppy ship to your location, will cost you $185,and the shipping fee of 2 will be $360. These babies will be delivered right at your door steps, in an electronic crate, play toys, and work papers. And if the shipping fee is made available now, then you are going to get the babies delivered to you, in about 6-7 hrs time. And as soon as you make the shipping fee available, i will take the puppy/puppies right away to the shipping company for them to be ship to your location.And as soon as i am done at the shipping company, they are going to email you, with the flight details and the bill number ok. We are not selling these babies/baby,but rather looking for a loving home to provide him or her with love and care ok. So,if that is ok by you, we will need your full contact home address, where you will like the puppies/puppy to be delivered.
Full Names……?
Country………..?
State……………?
City………………?
House Address…………?
Cell Phone Number #……..?
Zip Code…………………?
Nearest Airport…………….?
With all these details, will help me to fill the delivery form at the airport, and also help the shipping agent, who will be the person to deliver the puppies/puppy at your home, tress out your location for the delivery. Make sure that, as soon as you send the money, be at home in other to pick him/her up ok. Let me give you this secret that i use for my pets,You can boost your pet’s health profoundly by making one simple decision. All you have to do is change his diet from commercial-brand fare to something you may never have imagined giving him:real food.The fresh food you buy at the market for yourself is the food you should give your pet, too.”i feed my puppies with Fresh food. Fresh chicken and turkey and beef. Fresh raw vegetables and fruits. Fresh brown rice and oatmeal. Fresh yogurt,eggs, and cottage cheese,they do not shed..So i will be waiting to read back from you soon.. Thanks.
God Bless You.
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Does This Look Like A Fake/scam?
Posted on January 19, 2011.
i ve not read it all but it
seems like
some trying to hack your account (EMAIL?BANK ETC.)
BY USING SOCIAL ENGINEERING …….to predict possible combination of your account
I would not go for this.
I doubt they even have puppies.
Read this .. http://www.ehow.com/how_2179393_avoid-on…
Scam. They want you to send money for shipping and that is the last you will hear from them.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Scam, no doubt about it. Pay and you’ll then be asked for further fee, customs charges, refundable insurance (no such thing of course) for the imaginary puppies. Almost certainly from Cameroon.
Can you post the scammer’s email address to warn other people.
100% scam.
There is no puppy.
There are stolen pictures of someone else’s puppies.
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 made-up 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.
It’s called a Cameroon puppy scam. There is NO puppy – they just want you to send money through Western Union or Moneygram and you have no way to get it back once you realise you were scammed and the puppy does’t exist.
NO breeder refers to their puppies as “babies” – that is typical language used in a scam
And WHAT is an electronic crate???
Want more proof it’s a scam, write back to say that your dad works for American Airlines so you get free cargo and ask for THEIR address. Say that you just spoke to AA’s cargo department and they have their own crates and will come by their house anytime this week to pick up the puppies so they don’t have to pay for shipping