Scam Type
Online Purchase Scam
Date Reported
2022-12-11 00:00:00
Victim Postal Code
24112
Total Dollars Lost
300
Scam Description
They was posting on Facebook with yorkie puppies for sale. Albert Parks called me on Facebook messenger several times showing me pictures, videos, even a receipt and AKC form filled out to me. He said he needed $200 to secure the puppy and $100 for the insurance. They could deliver the puppy to me at my home or I could come to his home and get the puppy. He gave me his address and we set a date for me to pick the puppy up. I drove 4 hours to this address he gave me. I was to be there at 12:00 noon. I arrived and called him to let him know I was there. He told me he stepped out for 20 minutes and would be right back. He called back and ask for $100.00 more to take the puppy to the vet to get a covid shot and that is when it started going bad. I started asking the neighbors if he lived at that home and if they sold yorkie puppies. No one knew his name and no one had seen yorkies at that home. He got foul mouthed with me because I would not send him another $100 and that I did not trust him any longer. I kept telling him. I was not giving him any more money until he was standing in front of me with a puppy in his hand. He then told me that since I did not trust him any longer that he could not help me. I requested my money back and he hung up on me and blocked me on all avenues to reach him.
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.
