Here is a series of emails from a breeder that was almost scammed .......................

Dear Ed.

I have contacted you in the past regarding my 7 month old lab. I purchased your training video about 1 1/2 years ago. I am happy to report that I have a very well trained dog, thanks to your advice. (distractions and all!)

The purpose of this email is to inform you of a puppy scam in my area. Kloie recently had 10 puppies which I am advertising for sale in the local paper. I, too, received a relay call. I was in an area where I had practically no cellphone signal, so I quickly took email information and sent an email with puppy information. This is the response to my email; it is almost the identical message that you posted on your puppy scam/con artists forum. Just thought you'd like to pass the information on. Please omit my personal information.

Thanks,

Debbie DeFeo



Hi Defeo

Thanks you so much for the e-mail sent to me and i am very happy to hear from you soon and the reason I am sending you this email is to make final reconfirmation and also to let you know hat payment will be by Certified Check or certified USPS (United States Postal Servce) Money Order. In view of this I need you to email me any information that may be required to send the Certified Check or Money Order, as I do not want to send the Certified Check or Money Order to a wrong location lest they gets into the wrong hands.
Regarding the shipping, I have a company that takes care of the pick up of my consignments for me and ship to my destination anywhere in the U.S.A, you do not worry about shipping, the company will send down a representative to arrange the sales documentation and the pick up from your end for onward transfer to my destination. I also want to alert you on the fact that you will berecieving an overdraft Certified Check o r Money Order, which will cover the money for the pickup (pickup and shipping to the final destination) as well as the money to be paid to the company that will take care of the pickup and the documentation with you. So please, as soon as you receive the Certified Check or Money order, go and cash them immediately, deduct the money that accrues to you, and send the balance to the Head Office of the company that handles the shipment in London United Kingdom via the nearest Western Union agent in your area. Deduct the Western Union charges from the balance and send the remaining to London immediately
The Certified Check or Money Orders will be in your name to make it easier for you to receive payment, deduct your money and send the balance via Western Union as regards my earlier direction, please reconfirm your details one more time. I will give you the details of the company that you will send the bala nce of the money to in London once I get a reply and agreement that you will send the money to London via Western Union money trnasfer immediately you cash the Certified Check or Money Order. Once the money is received by the agent in London , the shipping agent will contact you immediately to arrange the documentation as well as the pick up immediately. So in view of the above, here are some of the details I will need for final assuance of the Certified Check or USPS Money Order to you:

(1) Full Name
(2) Mailing address, no p.o.box please
(3) Your direct telephone numbers
(4) Acceptance of my offer

so i would be intrested in buying intrested in buying one female puppies . Once you get back to me with all the above, the Certified Check or Money Order will be issued out immediately and it will be sent to you ,Hope to hear from you immediately.

Regards,
Tom Alle at petinc001@yahoo.com

NB i would be giving you $50 for reserving the Puppies for me

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Dear Ed

Thanks for alerting people to this scammer. The address is Tom Alle at petinc001@yahoo.com - as I should have known something was not right with this address. I haven't heard anything from him. I think he got scared because I asked for more information from him.

Let me tell you, if it weren't for your website, I wouldn't have totally figured out that this was a scam. I searched Google for "shipping requirements dogs London United Kingdom" and up popped your website with the puppy scammers con artists. That's when I knew I was going to a trusted website (yours) and saw the thread. You did a great service to me, as I am sure many others who are new to this type of crap. unbelieveable....

Debbie DeFeo