Is this a puppy scam to get my money?

• i asked these people today if they are a scam cuz i found a rot pup i wanted and i cant tell if it is a scam cuz if it is there putting alot of effort into it. heres one of the emails Hello dear Thanks for the mail ok all you have to do is to trust me i am not in this bull shirt ok i will never scam some one because of money because i believe the money is not everything in this earth the bible says that man shall not live by breed alone i am a christian not only a christian but a full catholic christian just trust me i know that it is difficult to trust people nowadays due to what this little boys are doing over the internet but i will plead with you to try . Also there is no way that i can prove to you that is not a scam without you receiving the puppy and you know that so all i will ask of you to do now is to provide me with your full delivery address that i will used to register the puppy at the airport so once i have this will then tell you how to send the money so that you can go and send the money and i take the puppy to the delivery agency and you have him as a present to your boyfriend and i know how you will feel if i feel you so just give it a try i promise you that you will not regret get back with the addresses as i previous ask as follows Happy Palm Sunday

• Answer:

  100% scam. There is no dog. There are stolen pictures of someone else's dog. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "pet shipping company" and will demand you pay for shipping fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "Cameroon pet scam", "fake puppy sale scam Western Union" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam. There are sites where you can look up pictures and find the site or sites where the scammer stolen the cute pictures of the puppies.