This is serious business, guys. I just got a letter from the state attorney general’s office. It concerns puppies. Puppy crime!
- You’ve been warned!
“DON’T FALL FOR THE SCAM WITH THE PUPPY DOG EYES!” says the email from John Kroger’s office. Yes, in all caps. The scam-a-lot alert warns Oregonians against emails advertising free puppies.
“The scam works like this: although the dogs are “free,” the seller will ask to be wired money in advance so the puppy can be safely shiped [sic] to its new owner… A recent version of the “puppy scam” offered two registered English Bulldogs “free to a good home.”
The puppy scam relies on the best intentions of animal lovers. Another version of the puppy scam involves a con artist posing as a “puppy mill rescue group”. These ads claim to be seeking good homes for a batch of purebred puppies rescued from a puppy mill. In reality it is the puppy mill operator who has posted the ad and is looking to cash in – sometimes asking $1,000 or more per puppy.
Yech. Thinking about the kind of human being who scams other people fucking depresses me.
I know in my brain that corporate crime costs way more, but when it comes down to it, I still think shit like this is just higher on the “plain evil” scale.
LOL, this is certainly not an old scam by any means. Been seeing these on Craigslist for years!
One more reason to adopt from your local shelter