CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) — Hoping to cuddle up to a new pet dog or cat this holiday? The Better Business Bureau reports more than one out of three complaints reported to its scam tracker involve the sales of pets. Most of those involve online scammers.
“You’re such a good girl,” Daphne Wilson said as she cuddled her miniature dachshund, Nala.
She wanted to surprise her son Brandon with a dog of his own.
“We found one that actually just spoke his name to us and we’re like, ‘Okay, this is the one,'” she said.
Wilson found the pet on an online pet store. She sent in her 50% deposit and waited for the puppy to arrive at Oakland International Airport.
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“So I was waiting. Now I was waiting for the plane. And I was looking and then the plane never showed up,” Wilson recalled.
Alma Galvan is with the Better Business Bureau.
She says consumers are often enticed with cute puppy photos stolen from someone online.
“A lot of the scam websites that we see use really really good enticing photos. Obviously we all get warm and fuzzy and sad when we see a real cute puppy,” Galvan said.
Judy Neuhaus found her corgi Abby on a website for sale.
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That puzzled her because Abby had been euthanized following a fight with cancer.
She thinks someone stole Abby’s photos off her Facebook page.
“It’s degrading to show my beautiful dog pregnant on a hill…
