04-02-2012, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: South Wales
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Re: Beware Of Internet Scammers
A friend of mine has fallen for one of these scams.. She was buying (or thought she was) a pug puppy. She'd found the ad online and rang the man up. The ad said he was based in Swansea but he told her he was in Scotland and the ad must have been a typo. Anyway the 'pugs' were being sold for £200 but shipping was going to cost £100 on top. She believed herself to be getting an unbelievably brilliant pedigree dog for what seemed to be a bargain. She sent the man the £100 and the man gave her a reference number and a phone number for a specialist animal courier... Needless to say the numbers he had given her were complete BS. She was absolutely devastated and still hasn't recieved the money back (a police investigation is ongoing but it's unlikely something will be done about it unfortunately) although she does now have a gorgeous little pug  |
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