Craigslist Dog Adoption Scams

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Craigslist dog adoption scams. An unusually high proportion of victims of online pet scams are in their late teens or 20s according to the BBB. While Craigslist officially bans the sale of companion animals in reality such sales are common on the platform with sellers often using the term rehoming in order to skirt the ban. Many of these are dog scams on Craigslist.

So in a nutshell these people under the guise of being a friend to animals make a 200-400 profit for each dog they obtain from the shelter or other adoption means CL local classifieds etc. Its all a scam. Viewers often lose money to a scam where they find a pet for sale online and then are charged large amounts of money to ship the pet to them but the pet is never shipped.

Because of the current circumstances and unusual ways of doing business right now potential pet owners may not worry about buying a pet they have not met or seen yet. I support a small nonprofit that works to put puppy mills out of business by educating the public about pet shops and where they get their puppies. Pet shipments often part of the scam.

I ALMOST GOT SCAMMED. The thieves almost always ask the victims to pay to ship the pet by air and they will send victims to bogus web sites of pet transportation companies set up. Do warn your kids and grandkids.

It is scammers who target honest and innocent pet loving people searching online forums to find a pet to adopt. The Craigslist Rehoming Scam. You can look up adoptable animals near you at Petfinder and the Shelter Pet Project.

The scammer first puts an ad offering pets for sale a very low cost. If a puppy was being sold for 400 and is now being sold for 360 this isnt a. How most of the scams work.