Scam Type
Online Purchase Scam
Date Reported
2022-11-29 00:00:00
Victim Postal Code
60193
Total Dollars Lost
400
Scam Description
I’m looking to buy a puppy for Christmas. Find this website and start email with them. After everything done and I send deposit via Zelle, not the whole amount wanted, I was wonder way puppy’s description haven’t been changed to “Reserved or as they used booked). I ask in an email and answer was the web site manager didn’t worked last days. Start to thinking I was scammed. Searching in the websites found, they do the same business 2 years before with the similar name on the website but same address and yes, I was scammed. So I contact to my bank and hope to get my money back…
BBB notes: If you feel you are a victim of an online pet or pet transportation scam, BBB encourages you to file a complaint and/or customer review at www.bbb.org/Norfolk, with the Virginia Attorney General’s office at https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint, as well as report your experience to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov and the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov.
