/puppy-scammer-list/mybulkybuddy-com/ Combating online Pet Scams by exposing websites used for fraud. Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 /puppy-scammer-list/mybulkybuddy-com/#comment-17588 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:11:42 +0000 https://wpswyft.local/puppy-scammer-list/mybulkybuddy-com/#comment-17588 10/10/20 Over the past couple of days I had several email conversations with “my bulky buddy”… They sent me a lengthy response to my initial email that at first glance appeared to be legit. They even went as far as to answer some specific questions I had sent them in my email. The price they were asking was 1500 plus shipping which was a good deal but was not low enough to feel like a red flag. They claimed to be a small time breeder with grandkids who raised the pups in house. I was sent multiple photos of the exact dog I had asked about. I told them I was going to take a couple days to make a decision and they went as far as to thank me for taking the process so seriously… They even gave me their phone number To call or text when I was ready. I had 0 reasons to think this was a scam…. But while I was watching TV I started to think about the phone number they provided and that the 525 area code wasn’t from VA where the breeder was claiming to be… I only know this due to my job where I deal with customers in VA on a regular basis… While it did set off a red flag I still wasn’t ready to say it was a scam… people have cell phones from all over these days so you never know… But just to be safe I did a reverse image search of the photos they gave me on google and found the exact puppy I had been looking at for sale on a website in Argentina!! And the image was a google copy-write image and not an original photo. So at that point I knew it was all a scam, started digging deeper found this site and wanted to be sure to share my story… luckily I had not paid anything to them or given any sensitive info out other than my email address… But like I said if I wouldn’t have realized the area code not being from VA I might not have thought twice about it… they weren’t overly aggressive about getting a payment, their emails answered specific questions that I sent them… (I did notice after I realized it was a scam that they had some minor grammatical errors in the emails they sent but they were minor so originally I dismissed them as typos)… So DO NOT buy or communicate with this “company” it is a scam

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