Another good way of checking to see if someone is genuine... Get them to take a photo of the animal with something like todays paper, or (as we use on another website) a tin of custard

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If they can't/won't they're one of two things: lazy, in which case do you want to buy an animal from them, or, they're a scammer and can't, because they don't have the animal to do it.
The internet is a dangerous place, if you don't protect yourself
