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 I was in the market to purchase a bull dog puppy and came across this website, www.dailybulldogpuppies.com. I checked the website, and it was rated well with scam sights and it was registered 11-13-2013 so I that because it had been up for about 10 months, that it was okay. The thing I didn't like, right off the bat was that they ask for payment in the form of two moneygram xpress cards. I felt uneasy doing this, I asked if I could pay paypal, or with my credit card, as they both offer fraud protection but they said that the only way to pay was through the moneygram xpress cards.

I received a text from a person calling themselves Scott who asked if I was interested. He said that I could pay my deposit and it could ship the next day. I should have waited, I know, but I was excited that I was getting a puppy for my son. After doing my research, I realized that they go for more than the $750 asking price on www.dailybulldogpuppies.com, but when I thought I was buying one, I was going for the cheap deal. On their website is a page where you can enter the reference numbers from the moneygram cards you purchase.

The instructions on the moneygram xpress card say to call moneygram so that they can assign the wire to a recipient and give you a confirmation number. I texted the person and asked him who the recipient was and he said he only needed the numbers. I didn't understand why, I just assumed they did it as a security measure and as a quick way of making the funds available. They ask for 2 $200 cards, that serve as your deposit, and $300 later, once the puppy has been received. The $50 is consumed in fees. There were lots of red flags from the beginning, such as, there isn't a way to choose the puppy you are purchasing; instead, you simply make the payment. Also, once you make the payment, you don't receive an invoice, or a contract or a receipt of any kind.

The following morning, I received a text, letting me know that the puppy was at the airport. He didn't have a flight number, or ETA or even let me know which airport the puppy would be arriving, instead he said that the carrier service would call me to let me know when the puppy would arrive. I said okay. I checked my emails and was cleaning out some older ones, when I noticed I had an email in my spam folder from the carrier company. The email looked totally bogus. First, their were three shipping company's names on it. Two of, are legitimate companies, but I am sure that the people emailing me, do not represent them. The third is called Continental Pet Movers. It wasn't until later, when I researched the moving company's name, that I was certain the whole thing was a fraud. What they do is, they email you, letting you know that they cannot ship the puppy unless they have a $600 refundable deposit, that will be given back to you once the puppy is delivered. (I will admit, they're pretty good.) I texted Scott and told him about the email. He asked me to call them and they would not take my credit card (another red flag) they wanted cash in person. The alternative mode to paying them would have been to send more money to Scott who would pay them, so that the puppy could ship. I found some reports of people sending money to them over and over as they come up with more and more excuses why their puppy can't ship and taking advantage of innocent people who are worried about a non-existent dog. I said no. I almost ran to the bank, withdrew the money and bought more moneygram xpress cards, but I thought, 'no, I'd rather be out of $400, than $1000,' and drew the line there. Scott was pretty convincing. He had me believe that he was losing money on the flight he purchased and that it was important to put the puppy on his flight. I asked for a refund, which he said he would give me but he wanted me to wait until he sold the puppy. I think he is just buying time.

I text him again today and told him that I was convinced I had been scammed. I asked for a refund or I was filing a police report. He said to file the report. I believe he is a foreigner. While his English is good, there were several inconsistencies in his typing. He types, sale, instead of sell and his choice of words were unique. This might appear as simple grammar mistakes at first, but fraud emails and scams tend to have lots of misspelled words and poor sentence structure, as did the email I received.

The more research I did, the more red flags I found. Some of the pictures on his website are stolen from other sites. One site in particular he borrows pictures from, is suburbanbullies.com. In fact, the website even borrows pictures from the testimonials on suburbanbullies and if you pay close attention, on one of the testimonials on dailybulldogs.com, it thanks suburbanbullies.com.

The dailybulldogpuppies.com website is absolutely convincing. There are lots of pictures of a family, with their bulldogs. There is a section for testimonials, only they are not real, and there is even a section warning you of fraud. Imagine that. The funny thing is that the person from suburbanbullies.com is called Scott, so all the testimonials are thanking him. The person on dailybulldogpuppies.com calls himself Scott, so you assume that he is the person everyone is talking so highly about.

I took the time to write this to warm people, because I hadn't found anything warning anyone about dailybulldogpuppies.com. The website has been up for almost a year, so have they been ripping people off successfully since then? If something like this happens, I recommend that you file a complaint with the FBI. File a local police report. Let moneygram know of the fraud, then warn the classifieds that are hosting their ads. I have never been scammed before, and I am pretty impressed at the way they have set up their scam but I learned my lesson. I found a report from a similar scam sent by a person using the email address rebecca.ashley3@gmail.com, in which they used continental pet movers. I believe they also are associated to yorkiepuppieshome.net and pestsads.com.