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Ivan Markk Puppy Scam Prattsville Arkansas
This person advertised French Bulldog puppies for re-homing on Craigslist. I sent an email asking for some general information. Here's the reply I received.
"Thanks for emailing in regards to our puppies,our family takes great
care to make sure this our puppies are very socialized and come with
all up to date shots and also seen by our Vet before going to their
new homes.this puppies are 11 weeks old, kc registered,vet
checked,good temperament with kids and other pets.we exercise
regularly and take this puppies always for a walk! .this our puppies
are raised in the same home and environment. with the puppies, .we
have Two puppies available and their names are,Martin is the Male and
Nicole is the Females. Please do answer the questions below if
interested.
Are you married?
Are you familiar with this kind of breed?
Were are you located ?
How soon do you need the puppies?
Do you have a good environment for the puppies ?
Are you interested in the male or female?
I will be waiting to read from you."
I sent a message back with relatively generic answers, but actually included my city, which was probably not smart in retrospect. Here's the next response.
"Hello
am happy reading from you and your answers to my questions and from
the way your mail reads i most confess your house is the best for
Nicole and Martin gabby am getting rid of them mostly because of the
recent break up with my wife as she left with our kids and secondly
promotion at work so my schedule is chucked up as i cant provide time
to take good care of them am located at Arkansas 1697 Grant 47
Prattsville 72129. but my ad was powered to other states due to my
urgent re-homing of Nicole and Martin.so if you can come over and pick
them up i will be very happy seeing you in person so we fixed every
thing including that adoption document.please reply ASP so i give you
my house address also i have attach some lovely photos.regards Martin
and Nicole.But please one more tine if you can come to my place i can
still arrange for them to be ship to you if only you are able to pay
for shipping and shipping for both puppies will cost you just 480$ for
both puppies and please i just one to late you know that money is not
my problem i am just looking for a good and caring home for them so if
you will like them to be ship you will need to give your full home
delivery details so that i can go and gate them register at the
shipping company and you will need to know that this money you are
paying will nee ed to be pay up front because they will need to use
the money for the transportation of your puppies .
Also i shall require all your details to do the change of ownership
papers and the details are as follow.
Full names........?
House address.........?
City.......................?
Zip code.....................?
Home number...................?
Mobile number...................?
Nearest Airport to your location?
Your Email Address..............?
As soon as i have the details ,I shall prepare the change of ownership
papers before taking the puppies to the Pet courier company for
registration and your home delivery. Do get back to me with the
details so i can prepare the change of ownership papers and do the
delivery registration with the Courier service.Thanks and i shall be
waiting to read from you soon with your complete Flight Details. You
will have to pay just $480 directly to the Pet Currier company for
both puppies OK. And also I will send all the
relevant paper works via the Currier service so you will be paying
directly to them and not to me because my main objective is for these
puppies to have a lovely and
forever family, so be at home OK? to hear from the Pet courier service
and also to receive the puppies . Puppies also come with the following
papers .
# Health guarantee
# Vaccine record
# Microchip Registration
# Pedigree
# Nutrition supplement
# Traveling crate
Regards and waiting for your kind respond may God bless you and your family."
I Googled the address he provided, and came across a ripoff report from last year. Same kind of thing, only with Standard Poodle puppies. Here's the link to the first report. The name has changed, but the address and age of puppies is the same. http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Steve-Clarke/nationwide/Steve-Clarke-Pedigree-pet-adoption-scam-DallasTexas-and-Prattsville-Arkansas-Nationwide-1060788
The manner in which the responses are written suggest that, not only is English an unfamiliar language for the writer, but they're entirely unfamiliar with American terminology and sentence structure. I'd bet they're someplace far, far away from Arkansas.