Monday ... 26 January 2009 : SCAM Report #53 - Victims spared $700.00 on one weekend

from the desk of Dr Walter Woolf, the principal owner & managing director of Air Animal Pet Movers, the pet moving service for relocating pet owners, since 1977, .. with ONE (1) office only in Tampa, Florida / USA .

Monday, 26 January 2009 brought us three reports of attempted scams over the weekend of 23 - 26 January 2009.

SCAM #1 of 3 : the first one was for the purchase of a Maltese puppy for the price of $200.00 from the prospective scam victim in San Diego, California who knew Maltese puppies were generally available for purchase in the amount of $500.00 to $1500.00 .. and could not understand why the price was so low. The "deal" was from New Jersey .. to California .. fortunately .. the San Diego, California buyer did not fall for the low price.

SCAM #2 of 3 : the second one was for the purchase of a "teacup Yorkie puppy" for the price of $200.00 from New Jersey to Washington. The Washington caller could not understand why the US Dollars in the form of a Western Union transfer or the MoneyGram transfer had to go to the African country of Cameroon ... the Washington caller went to Air Animal's website ... www.airanimal.com .... found our Blog on Internet Puppy Scames, Business Identity theft, and realized she was a potential victim.

SCAM #3 of 3 : the third one was from the caller in "Indiana" wanting to know why an intial Western Union payment in the amount of $250.00 was followed by an additional request of $50.00 by Western Union for the internet purchase of a Capuchin Monkey ..to be shipped from the non-existent office of Air Animal in Kansas City to an unspecified airport city in "Indiana" ... the $250.00 was for the alleged transport & shipping of the pet by Air Animal .. with the additional fee of $50.00 for alleged home delivery ...... had to be sent to the African country of Cameroon. The scheduled passenger airlines of the United States and their air cargo services do NOT accept monkeys for shipment; and , there are NO branch offices of Air Animal Pet Movers anyplace in the world.

SUMMARY: with diligence, intelligence, internet saavy, and basic "smarts" ... three potential scam victims in the USA .. in the states of California, Washington, and Indiana were saved a total of USD$700.00 .

"I am deaf, was injured in an accident, & can only respond by e mail" : SCAM report #49

from the desk of Dr Walter Woolf, the principal owner & managing director, Air Animal Pet Movers, of Tampa, Florida / USA ... with NO branch offices anywhere in the world.

" I am deaf, the deafness having occured as the result of an accident; and can only communicate by e mail "

... the scammer wants you to feel sorry for her/him ... and the hook gets set with alleged deafness .. and then they put the "son" on the phone to further "set the hook" for the scam ...

you begin to wonder, when "my lawyer told me it was a good deal" .. How dumb could the lawyer be ? ...what law school did the lawyer graduate from?.... to tell the client to "go ahead" and send cash (USD$600.00) by MoneyGram at a local Wal-Mart to a total stranger in another country (the African country of Cameroon) for the purchase of a Capuchin monkey to be sent from Indianapolis, Indiana to "somewhere, Virgina" ... with Pet Air of Kansas City, Missouri & Air Animal Pet Movers supposedly participating in the project, when the scheduled passenger airlines and their air cargo departments NOT accepting pet monkeys for flight & transportation.

Please Note: both "Pet Air" & "Air Animal" are pet shippers utilizing the scheduled passenger airlines in the USA as their means of moving pets by air. Neither "Pet Air" nor "Air Animal" have any aircraft of their own .. each company and similar companies are live animal freight forwarders; not airlines.

Get real folks .. you are either a scam victim or are being set up as a scam victim; with Pet Air and Air Animal being set up as participants in an internet fraud, with our business identities being stolen.