12/08/2024
I have been selling puppies for a long while. Never many puppies as I don’t breed very often. Recently, I was contacted by an individual concerning puppies. We discussed puppies over a period of time. It seemed this person was interested in a puppy. I told him that while I will be breeding again in the near future, I have no puppies and cannot say for sure when I will have puppies. Then one day, he said his friend was sending me money for a deposit. He sent me way too much money (8 thousand plus dollars)well in excess of the deposit amount. It was sent by check and he called me every day wanting the excess returned. We were both sick and the weather was bad, so it was a couple of days before we checked the mailbox. When we did, the priority mail with the large check was inside. Since this was so unusual, I would not deal with this. The man was quite put out when we said we were mailing his check back to him. This made us realize this was a scam. We mailed the check back and did some checking. No person with the name given to me lived at the address given. The check came from a different state than the buyer. Don’t accept oversize checks from unknown persons and give refunds. It seems risky even if one waits for the check to clear. It seems they somehow wanted access to our account. Who gets mad if you mail their check back? I was called every name in the book from him. Scammers, that’s who. Don’t ever let anyone tell you what you know is wrong.
Twig Bousfield