Is anyone else being inundated by emails which are obvously of the money laundering type?  I am getting 2 - 3 every day or so, purporting to be someone wanting a pup, with the "my agent will pick it up"  line.  Why on earth are breeders being targetted?  I can understadn them going for people advertising things such as cars, but pups?  Surely we ask so many questions it  would stress the criminal materminds out trying to think of plausible anwsers.

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Gwen

Hi gwen, I was inundated with these sort of e-mails when I had my litter in September. Please delete them, do not even read them, and under no circustances answer them.

i've got shihtzu puppies for sale and had alot of emails offering ridiculus amounts of money for them,saying take your cut and pass money onto shipping person.I donot 'ship out' and have deleted these messages,didn't realise what was going on.

I usually email back saying 'when you come over to this country to visit the puppies we can discuss the matter further' this usually gets rid of them and I never hear from them again :D

Make sure and press "block sender" they usually get returned to the original sender,they should then get the message :)

I reply that 'I am disgusted that they think Im thick enough
for fall this disgusting scam' and I will forward it to my service provider.

The trouble with responding to these emails is that a response shows a valid email address - which is then added to all the "scam lists"!!! I just right-click anything that I don't recognise now, and send it straight to "delete immediately, don't even put in the trash bin!" ;)

Margot

Glad to know it s not just me, was begining to fell like a target or a soft touch!
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Gwen

its raging on the obedience sites too. not just for puppies but car cages etc also.

Sorry i dont undestand, how are they trying to get money out of people ?

Sometimes the cheque they send bounces, so they have both puppy and money; more usually they ask the gullible breeder to exchange some money into sterling for them but the breeder loses out that way too. It's a well-known scam.

The one cheary thing about this is the sort of breeder who would sell a puppy on the basis of just an email rather deserves to get diddled :D

We nearly got ripped off this way with a kitten we sold he said it was for his daughter sounded all genuine like he even found out about all the shipping for the kitten he said to take the money out of so much and also keep another $200 for ourselves then convert the money and return it to him and some bod would pick the kitten up for him he said it was his brother in law or something well the cheque bounced and the bank got in touch and they said we were lucky it hadnt gone any further they put a stop to it all but they couldnt track the bloke down who was behind it, we even had phone call of this bloke asking how the kitten was doing.

THanks for clearing that up for me !!!

One of the more sophisticated ways it works is that they ask you to give money to agent or send it on western union as soon as cheque has cleared,  of course, cheques can be drawn against after 4 working days, but can take longer to bounce!  More worryingly still, they make a transfer  into your account automatically - so cleared funds not problem?  Wrong, big problem, as they have pinched the account detailsl of some  other poor unsuspecting person using an internet "Phishing" scam.   The person who owns the accoutn finds out, bank and police get involved, and your have ot pay back all teh money, anddo a lot of explaining too!

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Gwen