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Please help...possible pet scam?

• Okay so i found this ad at http://au.catsadoptions.com for 'free siberian kittens', contacted the owner and have been sending emails back and forth for the last couple of days, she sent me pictures and i used google to see if she had stolen them off a website but found nothing. her latest email is: Hello, i am so happy you love him and can take very good care of him. All the same, I wish to let you know that,what i need most for now, is a loving and caring home for this kittens.where they shall be spoiled with love and beautiful things . From the way you sound on your mail , it tells me that my kittens shall be well cared for in your home, as such i need not ask you to promise if you are going to take good care of the kitten or not. I want you to know that i am not asking for any money for this kitten as i love them very much and just want them to be in a good home. As i know you would always be there for the kitten. How ever what i ask of you is to promise you shall send me regular updates on how the kitten is doing and some pictures as well . I am currently in Darwin with this kitten as that is where i work. Sorry for the distance,and it is all because i want them to be re homed asap that made me to contact you as i never can tell who will love they very much like i do.it is very hard to depart from them as they are my only comfort as i cannot hear to well(have a problem with my ears and i have been living with them all along and i just got a job and i find it difficult to look after them properly as i work for long and they do not feel comfortable as i am never at home when they need me. So please when would you like to or intend coming over for viewing and pick up? Well if you think driving this long over here would be a little stressing for you , then i can help arrange for a home delivery to your home, It is going to cost you $200 for the kitten to be delivery to your home , which you shall be making the payment upfront and directly to the delivery company. So if that is OK by you then all you need to do is send me your full contact and delivery details , which i shall use to process the change of ownership documents of the kittens to your names and also have it registered with the delivery company for delivery to your home . The information i need is.... Your Full Names............... State......................... City.......................... Your Phone Number............. Your Post code...................... House Address..................... I understand you might be concern on the kitten welfare traveling this long to your location , considering it's young nature. How ever i wish to let you know that, the kitten welfare traveling to your location is my prime concern and as such i would not put the kitten into any risk if i know it would be stressing for the kitten . So therefore i wish to assure you that the kitten would be delivered to your home safely , with the physical and mental readiness to rejoin its new home. I would be waiting to read from you asap. And don't for get sending pics with time to time. Sorry for such a long story, but really want to know if this is a scam

• Answer:

  100% scam. There are no siberian kittens. There are stolen pictures of someone else's siberian kittens. 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 kittens.