Hello, I was on the Forum for the first time earlier to let you all know that I am on the look-out for a Tom that needs re-homed. I'm not sure how much is on the Forum about scams, but I'd like to relate some of the problems I had last weekend when trying to buy a kitten from various freead sites. It turned out to be an absolute nightmare. The sites are full of fake, scam ads from a gentleman in Cameroon and I wasted a lot of time [and gained a hefty 'phone bill no doubt], telephoning numbers advertising Bengals all over the country that turned out to be this **** in Africa. He first said [in a strong Cameroon accent], that he was in Aberdeen, and when my partner said he did not sound Scottish he told her he had just moved from Canada. He told us he had a Bengal kitten for nowt but that it would cost £100 to have it delivered. My partner told him that we did not want any animal delivered and we would look elsewhere. We then telephoned another number in Middlesbrough, not to far from us, and lo and behold it's the same idiot answers the 'phone. This time he tries to direct us to a website, kittensforadoption.co which has to be seen to be believed. It is chocka with ads for exotic cats and kittens all over the country, all fake, all scams, same photograph on different ads, incorrect breed on ads, all with mobile or landline numbers in Cameroon. They hook gullible people in with email photographs of YOUR kitten, called Little Freddie, Frankie etc, offer to save you the trouble of collecting it, but it will cost £100 for delivery. Laughable, except kind, honest people are getting robbed. I sent the gentleman an email telling him in no uncertain terms what I thought of him and what I would relish doing to him when I found him. He has not replied. I checked the free ads more carefully and there are further ads that are straight copys of genuine ads with the Con Artists number substituted. I reported them all to the various sites and some of them were removed only to re-appear a couple of hours later. So, lesson well learned. Anyone got a Bengal to re-home? Not from Cameroon please.
Regards, Chris
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