{"id":1457,"date":"2021-12-16T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:11:14","slug":"holidays-ruined-for-woman-who-lost-4800-in-puppy-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/holidays-ruined-for-woman-who-lost-4800-in-puppy-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays ruined for woman who lost $4,800 in puppy scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerri McIntosh is a “dog person” who couldn’t help but fall in love when she found a Doberman puppy for sale in a Facebook dog lover’s group.<\/p>\n

“The woman selling it said, ‘This is the price, it includes shipping, and it is $1,300,’” McIntosh said.<\/p>\n

That was actually a reasonable price for a purebred. But as soon as McIntosh sent the money using a digital payment app, the breeder needed more cash. (hitechgazette<\/a>) <\/p>\n

“She needed $750 for a crate,” McIntosh said. The seller then requested hundreds more for vaccinations, insurance and a permit to ship the dog.<\/p>\n

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McIntosh started to worry. But by that point, she had so much invested in the puppy that she kept spending. In the end, she says she sent the seller $4,800.<\/p>\n

And as soon as she sent the last payment, the supposed breeder disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kerri McIntosh is a “dog person” who couldn’t help but fall in love when she found a Doberman puppy for sale in a Facebook dog lover’s group. “The woman selling it said, ‘This is the price, it includes shipping, and it is $1,300,’” McIntosh said. That was actually a reasonable price for a purebred. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}