Awww this Bulldog puppy is just too cute and probably why these criminals are using these puppies in their latest Nigerian scam.
Yesterday we received an e-mail from a lady asking us for help in finding homes for 5 Bulldog puppies and their parents. She stated that her mother in law had passed away who she was very close to.
You know us and so we quickly contacted a few friends to see if we could help. After a few minutes we though this sounded to good to be true, so we started searching the web, to see what we could find out. The name in the e-mail was Dorothy Thompson and since we have two members also named Dorothy we initially figured it may be one of them but after searching through our e-mails we realized we had no member with that last name.
What we found on the web after searching her name shocked us! This is a new type of Nigerian scam going around the web. They are targeting all pet lovers and also targeting all pet sites. How heartless are these people, to try and rob people by stating they need help because someone in their family is dead?! There are some sick, malicious people in this world that would steal from a baby in a second, if given the chance.
Here is the original e-mail we received so you know what to look out for;
Hi,
I am looking to place a litter of 5 adorable bulldog puppies and also the parents, they belong to my late mother in law who I was really close to and she passed away unexpectedly, these puppies are so cute with correct conformation and excellent dispositions with shots and worming up to date. They do the funniest things. You just can't get enough of their playful antics. And they are growing so fast, contact me immediately if you are interested in them.
Have a nice day,
Dorothy.
This was sent from the name Dorothy Thompson and the e-mail was dorothy2@2itb.com
We replied to her originally and stated we would do everything we could to find these pets a home and we got this response from this sick person or persons;
Hi, I am so sorry that I have not gotten back to you until now, your email was found in my junk folder, the parents of the puppies are from a champion blood line and puppies and adults are of show quality, these are full blooded english bulldogs and I need help placing puppies and parents, my moher-in-law's death was unexpected and she left no instructions, I am doing this in good faith to find these cute babies a permanent loving and caring homes, I am located in bangkok and I am a nurse practitioner and put in a lot of my time at work and so can't afford the time and space needed to care for the dogs, they are 12 weeks old and have their complete shots and worming, I am asking for a small re-homing fee of $150 and shipping is $350 depends on your location. Pictures will be sent upon request. Looking forward to hearing from you...Thanks..Dorothy.
After researching it more they sometimes state they are from Nigeria, Bangkok, Brooklyn and so on. So please everyone pass this along to help warn people about this latest scam. What will they think of next?!!!
We did find some good news about one of these scammers being caught in Manhattan over a year ago. Unfortunately they have this individual replaced with quite a few new middlemen here in the US, who are still working the scam.
Law enforcement officials have filed a criminal complaint against a Manhattan woman who is alleged to have fraudulently advertised free pure-bred puppies on major Web sites.
Janet Goris, 33, of the Lower East Side, was charged with luring four prospective dogs buyers into sending her "shipping and handling" payments of between $300 and $400 in exchange for baby English bulldogs, the Queens district attorney's office said.
"It is doubtful that the puppies even existed," the Queens district attorney, Richard Brown, said in a statement.
Ms. Goris allegedly told investigators she sent 90% of the profits from the puppy scam to accomplices in Nigeria. She placed advertisements on Web sites such as Yahoo Classified and livedeal.com, where she posed as several different religious figures, sources said. She was arraigned on charges of grand larceny and conspiracy and released without bail Friday, the Queens district attorney's office said.
A victim of the alleged scam, Jenny Chavis, 30, from Sebring, Fla., said the advertisement she found on Yahoo Classified claimed the puppies belonged to a traveling evangelical minister, the Reverend James Collins, whose mission helped find homes for the baby bulldogs.
"I have four children who were so excited to pick the dogs up from the airport," Ms. Chavis said. "I cried for days."
Ms. Chavis said she was instructed to wire $400 to a Western Union branch in the East Elmhurst section of Queens. After the funds were processed, a man who said he was Rev. Collins contacted her, she said.
"He asked for another $200 to get the dogs released from Customs," Ms. Chavis said. "That's when I knew it was a scam."
Officials are continuing the investigation in hopes of digging up more details about the alleged scheme, sources said, including the identity of the man who claimed to be Rev. Collins and possible ties to organized crime in Nigeria.
Ms. Goris will return to court later this month, the Queens district attorney's office said. If convicted, she faces up to four years of prison.
One down and another 100 or more to go!
If you have been the victim of internet fraud or any cyber scam you can go to www.ic3.gov to file a complaint. It is a joint task force we worked with concerning eBay thieves and scams several months ago, including the FBI, NW3C and the BJA. If we just ignore these scams then we allow the next person to possibly become their next victim.
Thank you all so much and God Bless.
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