Victim Location 07032
Type of a scam Online Purchase
This person who goes by the name Awasum Valery is pretending to be a breeder and sell pug puppies. My MIL isn’t very good with computers and came across this persons site while looking for a new pug puppy to adopt. They told her to send $700 through moneygram and he would put the puppy on a plane same day! Seriously?! So I didn’t buy it and started looking into it. They used textnow app to communicate and email. They had automated responses and when they typed it was super improper english that would switch from american to british english. The website was created in 2018 but their bio said they have been selling since 2005 and all of the pug photos available to adopt came straight off google photos. Thank goodness we caught this in time to get refund from moneygram otherwise my poor MIL would have been out $700 and no puppy. When you search his name it also comes to only one person who is definitely not from the USA. To add he was also very pushy and rushing my MIL to get the money. True scammer right here!! I only hope no one else has fallen for it.