I found a site called Veterinarian JA on line and thought I would ask some advice from one of the on line vets.  (The JA stands for Just Ask).  I did and she was quite helpful.  The fee for this was £5.00 and I was asked if I would like to leave a tip,  so I did leave a very small tip.  Thought no more about it until the bank rang me and said that my card had been scammed. The amounts I paid were legit but also there was a much larger amount which I knew nothing about and that had been taken from my account. The bank said they thought it was a sort of subscription.  Upshot is that my bank card has been cancelled and I am being sent a new one.  It is very difficult without it as it is so difficult to pay cash nowadays.  My daughter says I have been very naive but I am of that generation which tends to take things at face value!!  Has anyone else fallen for this?

Actually I don't think you are naive at all I think its the website misinformation and not upfront.
I looked at this site (just ask) for legal advice and thought it said £5 to go further and speak to a solicitor which I did, but after a very short time I had an email about subscription and was charged £50!!
I contacted them straight away and said I thought I was paying £5 not £50 and that its very unclear, and no where did I get anything about the £50. I did get my money back.

It's easerly done. A friend looked at their bank statement and noticed a payment they didn't recognise so checked the last few months and found more. Turned out when she had ordered a pizza it had offered her a subscription for some thing, and she hadn't notice and had clicked the place order (and sign up for this subscription) button. There must of been a small place order (without subscription) button further down. I've noticed Amazon do the same thing every so often. It will offer me to join prime membership with this purchase. Then the proceed with order button that also accepts the prime membership is a big button where as the proceed with order without the membership is a small link under everything. So if you wernt paying attention it would be easy to click it without realising you were signing up for prime.

I got caught out with Amazon in this way. I managed to refuse it with one order but it caught me out with another. As soon as I realised I stopped the subscription and they paid me back within a couple of days

It's only too easy to be scammed these days to the point that, being ultra paranoid?,  if I'm AT ALL suspicious about anything, I just don't proceed.  As is said, there's no free lunch.   I don't like the idea of a vet diagnosing online, period.  They can offer advice, based on what you are telling them, which is no more or less than most reputable/experienced breeders can do is it.  Or we can offer on here!?

I took a quick look at that website and have to say I was put off by the huge sub-page that immediately appeared.

I too was almost conned into the 'free post' on Amazon (Prime Membership) and felt it looked too good to be true.

My mum got caught out by Just Ask. I called up and asked if they were proud of themselves and their shoddy business practices and they gave her a refund. Don’t feel bad - it’s horrible that we all have to be so careful and you just can’t trust companies like this to not take advantage.

We got scammed many years ago when we were selling our East Sussex property. We were using an online estate agent ( yep,because it was cheap) who have now disappeared from the scene. A couple arrived in a very smart car. Both were expensively dressed. The fact that the woman was wearing suede heeled boots to view a country property on a rainy February afternoon rang alarm bells. I offered her the loan of wellies but she told me they would be returning to view the land on another day. We showed them round and their enthusiasm for the property was encouraging. They gave us an address in Wimbledon and a phone number. They seemed so keen, so genuine and apparently in a position to make an immediate offer-nothing to sell/cash buyers etcetc that we allowed them to have a look around without us. They left promising to phone in a couple of days to confirm a visit the following Friday. Which they did.

I first realised that something was wrong was when trying to buy some clothes for my granddaughter in M&S. All my cards were declined. My husband got through to the bank and the disaster unfolded. The couple were clearly accomplished fraudsters. They had been buying expensive computers etc on all our cards. A horse/tack shop in Northern Ireland was also implicated. John Lewis were sending emails to thank us for the purchase of three Apple Mac computers. Fortunately most of the attempted purchases were declined and we eventually, despite a scam phone call from another member of the gang, got our cards reinstated and money repaid. But it left us feeling stupid and vulnerable. The address they gave was not theirs of course and the follow up phone call they made was to put us 'off the scent'

We sold the house through a reputable agent and never again allowed unaccompanied viewings unless exchange of contacts was imminent.

How awful ,thank goodness that it was sorted out but can understand how you must feel vunerable and stupid. Something you certainly arnt

Thank you Furriefriends.
I forgot to explain that they had been able to clone our cards somehow. Probably in my husband's study.