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'All our dreams are gone': Ottawa couple scammed out of $177k
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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“I started telling my friends and they were all saying ‘oh, that’s a fraud. Don’t do that.’ But it was so real. I mean, you could see it all online and we checked them out through the better business bureau in England, and their website looked all so legitimate.”
Working with real geniuses here.
I have a friend that fell for a scam. They actually called me up to ask for money for "insurance" on a dog they had never seen and wanted to get. I told them it was a scam and that there was no way I was going to lend them the money. They said goodbye, called somebody else up for money, and got it. In the end they got scammed and didn't get a dog like I told them.
This is a huge reason to support adoption over buying pets.