Complaint Review: Jennifer Herbers

My first contact with this person was in August 2010. I found an ad on hoobly.com for pregnant blue french bulldog, AKC Registered, for $1000 (a fantastic price for these dogs, especially being pregnant)

We discussed the dog in email and on the phone. She claimed she had to go out of town and asked me to put down a $200 deposit. I mailed the deposit to P.O. Box 13 Hungerford, Tx 77448.

After about 3 weeks of trying to get a hold of this girl, going back and forth in emails and txt messages, I was finally able to meet up and buy the dog.

We met up at a shell station in Wharton, Tx near CR 1161.

The dog she presented was not the dog in the picture she listed online. It was a french bulldog, but it was not pregnant and it was severely malnourished and skinny. You could see the rib cages. I refused to buy this dog. She refused to return deposit.

To peak my curiosity I did some google searching on this girl's name and phone #. What I found confirmed everything I was feeling.

There were multiple posts about people sending this same person money and never receiving the animal. It was hard for them to get anything done about it because the Jennifer was using mispelled names and sending it to a P.O. Box.  It was hard to report this to the SPCA because nobody had a physical address.

I also found posts about people that did get shipped their animals. In one case, two pregnant bengal cats were shipped. Neither cat that arrived was pregnant. Both were feral. One was not even bengal. Both also were severely skinny and both had upper respitory infections.

In another case a lady bought a bengal cat & and sphynx cat. Again both cats arrived deathly ill, with respitory infections, sores on their body. The bengal cat was feral and had to be given to a shelter. The sphynx cat had about $600 in vet bills just to nurse it back to health.

After contacting as many of these people as I could, I started to find more and more people with similar stories. After colaborating with these people, we now have a large group of individuals that have been scammed.

As more and more information was uncovered, we discovered she was adopting animals from local rescue shelters and selling them online.

Finally one lady stepped foward who had actually been to Jennifer's house. She gave us step by step directions down dirt roads to a location in Hungerford, Tx. We used this information and reported her to the SPCA.

Just yesterday, Sept. 15 2010, I seen posts with Jennifer's new phone number on craigslist trying to sell Himilayan cats. I googled "himilanay cats" and I looked through google images and I found the cats she was selling. The two images she used where hosted on two different sites. One of the pictures was a lady holding a cat on a health site. I contacted the site and informed the lady. This got her false ad removed from craigslist.

I urge anybody else who has information on this person to file on this same report. List as much information as you can.

Shipping sick animals across state lines is a federal offense. Taking money and never mailing the advertised product is theft.

If you would like to contribute to the case, please file here and also send information on the following website  http://stfucrybaby.com/jennifer-herbers-online-scam/