- If it feels strange proceed with extreme caution
- If your puppy's price is lower than most BEWARE!
- A payment is required from a source Venmo, Zelle, Apple Pay, etc that cannot be retracted, HUGE RED FLAG! Once a payment is sent with one of those methods, it cannot be stopped!
- If you try to send a PayPal payment and get a message "party is not accepting payments at this time" HUGE RED FLAG!
- They frequently give you new names and phone numbers to send payments to
- If you ask to talk with the administrator, or the name of Mary Johnson, the call will be answered by "her Husband" whose English is so broken he is impossible to understand.
- Mary will be out feeding the pub Y's or buying food. You will receive a text back promptly where she confirms whatever her husband said.
- If you talk with a live person, you will hear many other conversations going on in the background
- They have a huge sense of urgency getting you to send a payment. Once you send a payment they will tell you it didn't come through and ask you to send a copy of the transcript. MAKE SURE IF YOU SEND ANYTHING, THAT IT DOES T SHOW ANY ACCOUNT NUMBERS FOR YOUR BANK OR PAYMENT SOURCE.
- They will tell you your payment wasn't received so please try another payment source because they are waiting to get the puppy in transit. Constantly pushing and texting as if there is a huge sense of urgency. If it's a weekend, the payment on your end may show up as pending so they will ask for a replacement.
- They will the send you a form from Zelle asking for money. They will tell you that they need to do thin in order to receive a refund for the 2nd payment that mysteriously went through. DECLINE IT! They will tell you that the only way they can refund your money is to connect their account to yours and this is the way it has to be done to you your money back to you. They will continue sending the request for more money as they want to get your refund to you.
- They will text endlessly, all hours of the day to get more money
- They will use phone numbers from all over the country. Most seem to be from California.
- Once they receive your money the transport company will contact to arrange for the delivery. They have a website, everything g looks legit. They have an instant chat box. You will also receive a delivery notification but at the bottom, there will be a note that receiver is to pay delivery fees.