Scam Type Oct 12, 2022
Online Purchase Scam
Business Name Used
Golden Cavachon
Date Reported
Oct 12, 2022
Victim Postal Code
92027
Total Dollars Lost
$4,200.00
Scam Description
I never thought there would be a puppy scam. We bought little blossom a cavachon from Golden Cavachon’s for $1800. We sent $500 by Zelle Then sent the rest by wire. There was an excuse after excuse of when little blossom would arrive. Finally she was at the airport ready to come, and we were told the crate was not up to par and we needed to send them $2700 more to upgrade the crate, but we were assured by a contract that we would get the money back, when little blossom arrived later that day, they then told us it was too late to send her so they would send her the next day first thing. This scammer works very fast and is very deceptive. You don’t have time to think. Your puppy is at the airport waiting to come and if you don’t send the money right now, it won’t come . We caught onto it being a scam, and our bank called at the same time warning us they thought it was a scammer too. We had sent one zelle to one number, which supposedly was a daughter. And the wire to another name same last name, but obviously fake. They encouraged us not to send the last $700. We told the scammers that we would send them the $700 addition for the extra crate which we had already paid $2000 for when the puppy arrived. They then told us they would not be sending the puppy. I was trying to get their address, but they kept refusing to tell us where the puppy was. After they then answered their phone thinking we were going to meet them at the airport of which they were not there, and we confronted them with them being a scam. They then disconnected their phone A week later another customer saw our name on their contract of which they had asked for before they sent any money. They were a lot smarter than us. And we were able to save them from being scammed also. The site is still up. And we lost $4200 of which we cannot get any of it back.
