AszPickle
New member
Hey all, It's my first time on the site so if I'm not doing something right, I'll fix it if you tell me later.
BUT
Within the last couple of days I've been browsing websites out of boredom for ball pythons and came across what I thought was a deal way to good to be true. Red flags went up immediately. No way in hell would you ever sell a healthy albino and high piebald ball python, and all the accessories for a mere $300. I know the real value of such beautiful creatures.
Intrigued I emailed them asking what the age and sex was and if they were selling them both for 300 or as such individually.
He sent back an email saying that he had a male albino and a female piebald ready for shipping that had been vet checked with up to date vet records, have cites papers, and were 10 months, and a year old. and he needed to get rid of them asap. he was 'on assignment' and could not take care of them as they need and was looking for a nice person to take them... and he was really stressing the needing the nice person to take them right now. But reading through the broken english I realized that suddenly these animals were being given to me for free! All I had to do was pay shipping (which I thought was only going to be from Beverly Hills, CA as stated from the classified site that I found them on.)
Yep, things were uber fishy by that point, so I decided to do some cyber-sniffing and typed their email address into google. Not only are they scammers, they're STUPID scammers. They have the same add listed in almost any and all classified site they could get their hands on. Some sites said they were from CA, TX, MA, WI, The Middle East, Dublin, the UK... At one site they had the same basic add listed under the same name, under completely different states and continents for that matter.
So now that it was confirmed that it was a scam I wanted to to with this guy to see what he wanted. A new email this morning, in the worst broken english produced this:
hello
Thanks for the reply.and it is very possible for the snake to be
ship right to your house address Ok,i am located in Cameroon where i
will be shipping the snake to your location ok,it will take only
5hours flight to your location ok so if you can promise you will take
very good care for the snake and pay the transportation today you will
also have your snake deliver at your home address today ok ok ,I think
that very perfect to ship the snake directly to your house address
Ok,shipping the male and female piebald and the male and female albino
pythons will cost 500$ ok, we can also sent you the snakes today ok
will take only 5hours flight for you to receive the snakes ok
So all i need from you now is the following address information so
that i can ship the snake right to your address ok and the shipment
fee of the snake, i will ship them right to your address ok,just try
to reply fast and be on the computer ok
your full names
your house address
city/state
zip code
phone number
the nearest airport to your home
as soon as i have the following address above, i will proceed with
the shipping as soon as possible OK, so can sent you address for you
to sent the transportation fee
Thank and Waiting for your reply
you can call us on 0023774846317
On top of now getting four snakes when originally getting two, the number, when typed into the computer leads to a link connected with a Kinkajou selling scam in Cameroon, Africa. There are no animals, and they always want you to wire money to them so you cannot trace it.
Needless to say these people are scammers, so stay away from them, and anyone under the name of [email protected]. (I mean really? They can't even spell 'breeding' correct?)
BUT
Within the last couple of days I've been browsing websites out of boredom for ball pythons and came across what I thought was a deal way to good to be true. Red flags went up immediately. No way in hell would you ever sell a healthy albino and high piebald ball python, and all the accessories for a mere $300. I know the real value of such beautiful creatures.
Intrigued I emailed them asking what the age and sex was and if they were selling them both for 300 or as such individually.
He sent back an email saying that he had a male albino and a female piebald ready for shipping that had been vet checked with up to date vet records, have cites papers, and were 10 months, and a year old. and he needed to get rid of them asap. he was 'on assignment' and could not take care of them as they need and was looking for a nice person to take them... and he was really stressing the needing the nice person to take them right now. But reading through the broken english I realized that suddenly these animals were being given to me for free! All I had to do was pay shipping (which I thought was only going to be from Beverly Hills, CA as stated from the classified site that I found them on.)
Yep, things were uber fishy by that point, so I decided to do some cyber-sniffing and typed their email address into google. Not only are they scammers, they're STUPID scammers. They have the same add listed in almost any and all classified site they could get their hands on. Some sites said they were from CA, TX, MA, WI, The Middle East, Dublin, the UK... At one site they had the same basic add listed under the same name, under completely different states and continents for that matter.
So now that it was confirmed that it was a scam I wanted to to with this guy to see what he wanted. A new email this morning, in the worst broken english produced this:
hello
Thanks for the reply.and it is very possible for the snake to be
ship right to your house address Ok,i am located in Cameroon where i
will be shipping the snake to your location ok,it will take only
5hours flight to your location ok so if you can promise you will take
very good care for the snake and pay the transportation today you will
also have your snake deliver at your home address today ok ok ,I think
that very perfect to ship the snake directly to your house address
Ok,shipping the male and female piebald and the male and female albino
pythons will cost 500$ ok, we can also sent you the snakes today ok
will take only 5hours flight for you to receive the snakes ok
So all i need from you now is the following address information so
that i can ship the snake right to your address ok and the shipment
fee of the snake, i will ship them right to your address ok,just try
to reply fast and be on the computer ok
your full names
your house address
city/state
zip code
phone number
the nearest airport to your home
as soon as i have the following address above, i will proceed with
the shipping as soon as possible OK, so can sent you address for you
to sent the transportation fee
Thank and Waiting for your reply
you can call us on 0023774846317
On top of now getting four snakes when originally getting two, the number, when typed into the computer leads to a link connected with a Kinkajou selling scam in Cameroon, Africa. There are no animals, and they always want you to wire money to them so you cannot trace it.
Needless to say these people are scammers, so stay away from them, and anyone under the name of [email protected]. (I mean really? They can't even spell 'breeding' correct?)
