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Re: £1800 victims of African dog dealers
People fall for it because the scammers offer expensive breeds such as Bulldogs, Maltese, Chihuahuas etc and offer them for £100 - £200 and use cute photos. These type of adverts should start alarm bells ringing. Its not just pet sites that these scammers target, its every type of classifieds, especially cars. If you look on autotrader, you will see new BMW's offered for sale at £2000 etc....
The only way to be totally safe is never to part with your money over the internet, no matter how tempting the offer may sound. The websites they ask for money to be paid via money gram and western union cannot be traced either. If you send money using these websites, there is no way the police or the websites themseleves can find out where the money has gone.
Mark
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