Posts Tagged ‘pet scams’

Why are you attracting certain visitors to your site or blog?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I find FeedJit’s Live Traffic Feed widget useful – gives me a rough idea of who is visiting the site and WHERE they are coming from. But frankly speaking, every time I observe links coming from some of those African-based countries, I cringe.  Why? Not all, but many of the pet scammers on the Internet are coming from those areas.  Now these bums/scammers or their representatives are hanging out at airports. Here is one interesting story on the topic.

Pet scammers monkeying around with world’s busiest airport – what to watch out for

Another useful article below (6 steps and tips & warnings)

How to spot a pet scam?

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Identifying the Pet Scammers from Cameroon Africa

Friday, March 13th, 2009

You can identify these pet scammers from Africa, especially from Cameroon Africa, because they will insist you pay by money order or wire transfer (why? it can not be traced). Never wire funds via Western Union, Money Gram or any other wire service – anyone who asks you to do so is a scammer.  ATTN: PET BUYERS — ALWAYS DEAL LOCAL AND IN PERSON!!

Most of the time, you can “google” the pet poster’s email address and quickly discover it’s a fraud.

 

Here is a Blogger.com blog dedicated to exposing these Cameroon based scammers

IDENTIFY AND AVOIDING THE CAMEROON PET SCAMMERS

1300 Known Email Scammers – Most came from victims or almost scammed

 

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Here is one scam I received a few minutes ago.

jude brusso
to Freeadlists.com

show details 8:35 PM (29 minutes ago)

Hello friend,
Thanks for the request.
Actually I am a breeder of ball pythons of different species here in Cameroon Africa and they are at moderate prices.
They are all vet checked with all necessary documents updated and are prepared to go to good homes.
I will use SWISS AIR In transportation which will take a maximum of 10 hours for the snakes to get to your location.

Below is the price list of the various species og female ball pythons I breed so make your choice and get back to me with what you want so that we can conclude and let your animals be delivered to you.

Albino cost…………..$330
Piebalds cost…………$350
Spiders cost………….$270
Pastels ( blonde, black and cinammon) cost……..$300
Caramel cost………….$275
Ghosts cost……………$250
Pinstripe cost………..$250
Bumblebee…………….220$
Banana cost……………$200
Axanthic cost…………$280
Ringer cost…………..$275
lesser platinum cost…..$300
Snow cost…………….$380

Thanks and waiting to hear from you soonest.

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