Craigslist Dog Adoption Scams

Scams are widespread with unethical breeders and dealers frequently selling animals who are sick stolen or even nonexistent.

Craigslist dog adoption scams. Viewers often lose money to a scam where they find a pet for sale online and then are charged large amounts of money to ship the pet to them but the pet is never shipped. Ive had the most exotic dogs in the world and only. Here is generally how it works.

While Craigslist officially bans the sale of companion animals in reality such sales are common on the platform with sellers often using the term rehoming in order to skirt the ban. It is estimated that pet adoption scam online is roughly 80 of pet ads. Do warn your kids and grandkids.

Due to isolation and forced working from home people are desperate to find a pet to keep them company. Heres how the scam works. Watch the video below to see in action a Pet Adoption scam exposed.

The thieves almost always ask the victims to pay to ship the pet by air and they will send victims to bogus web sites of pet transportation companies set up. Now I am looking for a new pup but there are sooo many scammers on craigslist plus they all want HUGE rehoming fees. While many times these fake listings appear on websites like Craigslist some scammers find ways to position themselves as reputable breeders by stealing personal info from them.

The eager adopter pays the breeder and then gets a notice saying the pet is being held at the airport because it is required to have insurance in order to travel. You also need to look at how much of a discount they are offering. I went online in search of getting a golden retriever or yellow lab.

Buyers need to be warned and aware of how these disreputable Sellers play this game to rip them off. Part 1 Im writing this blog to warn people who use craigslist looking for pets especially popular dogs such as yorkies chihuahuas pugs pitbulls golden retrievers and labradors. The scammer first puts an ad offering pets for sale a very low cost.