Victim Location 95136
Total money lost $773
Type of a scam Online Purchase
My family and I wanted to purchase a new dog after ours had just passed away. We found this website called RarePomeranianPups.com which we put our contact info into. He texted us within a few minutes and we asked all of our questions, and he provided more photos of the dog we wanted that weren’t included on the website. He told us that he would be putting the dog on a flight the next morning and it would be flown to our airport of choice and then he’d be using a service that would deliver the dog to our front door. We were then instructed to make a payment of $773 either through paypal or through zelle. We chose zelle and transferred the payment. The following morning we received an email from [email protected] requested we pay another $990 for pet insurance before the dog could be put on its flight. When we contacted the business through its website unitedairlinelogistics.com we realized the customer service representative was the same person as the one we had spoken to that was selling the dog. They used a photo of a United plane on their website to try to make it look more legitimate. We also reverse searched the testimonies and photos from the dog breeder website and they were from other people’s instagram pages.