{"id":1533,"date":"2022-07-08T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crockettdoodles.com\/?page_id=1533"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:51:28","slug":"puppy-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crockettdoodles.com\/puppy-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Puppy Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puppy Scams are becoming more and more prevalent as a greater percentage of Americans are originally finding their puppy on the internet. Several years ago, one of our close friends told us that their mother (in her 80\u2019s) sent a wire transfer of $2,000 to supposedly get a Yorkie puppy from an online breeder. After several weeks she still had not received the puppy. When she reached out again to the supposed breeder, he said that he had miscalculated the price of the flight, and she needed to send another $1,000. Thankfully this time, she got her family involved. Her grandson knew a private detective, and as they researched it further, they found that the breeder’s number was just a burner phone. It traced to an area of Michigan where a number of scammers from other countries had set up a scam system. It was impossible for her to get back her $2,000, but at least she did not get ripped out of the other $1,000.<\/p>\n

Puppy scammers (like other scammers) prey on people who are vulnerable. In addition to targeting the elderly, it has been shown that puppy scammers are often effective in deceiving puppy buyers in their late teens and early twenties. This demographic is likely to believe what they see online, have very little \u201creal world experience,\u201d and be desperately wanting a cute puppy for a really good deal. Many of these young people fall right into the hands of the puppy scammers.<\/p>\n

Puppy scammers copy and paste photos and text from other websites and try to pull on people\u2019s heartstrings about a super cute puppy that\u2019s available right now. About 40,000 puppy scams are reported each year, and that\u2019s probably just a fraction of people who have been scammed, as many people are too embarrassed to admit that they were scammed.<\/p>\n

Through the years, many of the families that have reached out to Crockett Doodles have done so after being scammed by someone else. My parents taught me that if something is \u201ctoo good to be true,\u201d then it probably is false. We have worked for nearly a decade to develop a stellar reputation as an upstanding network of family raised Doodle pups. We encourage you to compare our reviews on the Better Business Bureau to any other breeder, and we think you will see why so many families have trusted us for a pup. At the time of this writing we have over 200 reviews on the BBB, and right around 98% are 5 stars (out of 5 stars). When you realize that most people reach out to the BBB when they have a complaint, our continued out performance of competing breeders reviews is notable. A few of our largest competitors also have many reviews, but the 1 and 2 star complaints far outnumber their 4 and 5 star reviews.<\/p>\n

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Be careful to avoid internet puppy scams (Brown\/White Springerdoodle)<\/p><\/div>\n

Puppy Scam Details<\/h1>\n

In September of 2017, the Better Business Bureau published an exceptionally helpful ten page report documenting its thorough research into puppy scams. That detailed BBB report was entitled \u201cPuppy Scams: How Fake Online Pet Sellers Steal from Unsuspecting Pet Buyers.\u201d The BBB report was written by their international investigations team, and it is the best research that I have read on the subject. The specific bullet points below are taken from the thorough 2017 BBB article as well as an updated BBB report (9\/1\/2020).<\/p>\n