CASA REPTILIA Ltd.. Scam?? or actual dealer ????

Over a year and a half ago I got the same message. I tried it out and here is what happened. I will post some of the emails. Everything was going good. I had never imported before so i did not know how everything worked.
Any way. i wanted ball pythons. I asked for pictures and references. i got both. The references that i got came from a person named John Larry . Also Later after it all happened i found out the pics came from Roussis Reptiles collection.

Here is the message that pretty much told me this is a scam...

Miguel Gonzales wrote:
>
> > Hello , i have just been informed that they were
> > transfered to their quarantine in Marseille and
> that
> > i need to pay for an export permit and the related
> > fees on quarantine and custom duties amounting to
> > 1400 EUROS and also they are NOT GIVING ME ANY
> > ASSURANCE OF WHETHER THEY ARE GOING TO RELEASE
> THEM
> > OR NOT.They say with THE OUTBREAK OF THE BIRD FLU
> > NOW IN EUROPE ALL ANIMALS ON TRANSIT IN EUROPEAN
> > COUNTRIES MUST BE CHECKED FOR ANY POTENTIAL
> DISEASE
> > AND THEN BURNED OR INCINERATED. This may be a
> great
> > loss for me now and i am empty now and i hope
> rescue
> > the situation.
> > So i believe you send me the money through
> > western union so i can try to pay to them , with
> the
> > help of my shipping company , they say they can
> > intervene on my behalf so i have to pass through
> > them , than to waste time .Please help as soon as
> > possible so we may rescue them all .
> > You have my details right , so if you can send the
> > money so i can pay right here and then hoping they
> > release them before Saturday.
> > Reply as soon so i know my position.
> > Miguel

I told him that I sent the money and I want the snakes. I also said that if i could get the snakes I wanted my money back. He said that he spent the money on GTP, but those to went wrong so he lost all the money. He guarenteed live arival so I said I don't care. I email him about every day to annoy him to send me my money back. He replies once and a while to say that he is working on it but as of now I haven't gotten anything. If you want to see more emails please let me know.

As of now I am still looking for importers. If you know of any good ones or want to warn me about bad ones please let me know. I will help any one out as much as I can as well.
Thank you for your time.
Peter Gagliardo
Wild Reptiles

If I'm not mistaken that's not the name of the owner of the "original" Class Reptilia. I'm away from my computer now so I can't verify it. I bought from them a couple of years ago and were great to deal with.

Regards,

This guy from cameroon scams all over the place. Different names, different emails, different animals, but heck.. how many people from Cameroon are looking to export animals? I was looking for an English bulldog for a while.. I emailed around 6 different people who all turned out to be the dude from Cameroon.

Sorry, I got my names confused. I have no idea who Casa Reptilia is I was thinking about "Class Reptilia.

Thanks.

Here is what I'd do

If your interested in prooving him a scammer (like you need to at this point) tell him Kimbi or whatever his name would like to talk to him, and give him an anonymous email address you set up prior, and take it from there. try to Get them to get in together on the scam, and take this dumb American for all his money LOL.. That would be ammusing to see how scammers talk to each other about the people they rip off.. Would also be pretty funny if Kimbi took a beating for out scamming his neighbor scammer .