Puppy pet scam [email protected]

[AlanJones]

The following was posted by user nail180, but was lost when our server went down. Fortunately, Google had cached some of what was posted:

Here is another pet scamming email: [email protected]
Payment was to : Enow Aringe Mbi Jacob, Cameroon.

The fake transportation website: http://globalwesttrans.com/

Hi nail180,

thank you for posting the information on this scammer. Could you also post the emails you received please? The more info we have on them, the better.

The transportation website is indeed a fake and will be reported.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

Hi Michael, the mails are in Portuguese don´t know if that´s useful. But here is a quick summary, one of my family members has been exchanging mails with "Alicia" she supposedly suffered from a car accident where her little daughter died, and she wanted to give her daughter´s puppy. Alicia did a nice theater, and totally convinced my family member. At the day the dog was going to be sent, we received a phone call from +237 73528923 telling that the transfer would need to be done asap or the animal would be waiting at the airport and we would pay extra expenses with food etc.

I was working and was told by my family who received the phone call to do the transfer. I was super suspicious when I saw it was to Cameroon, but my family member said it could be a filial company. The transfer was 110 Euros. After making a break from work I did a quick research on the mail (which was on various websites), and it "hit" me that both the lady and the company talked through Google Translate, so 20 minutes after the transfer I knew it was a scam.

We received a phone call and more emails later, to pay for the insurance 490 Euros. Now it was my time to speak to them, and I pretended I would still do the transfer (it was quite an hilarious situation btw).

Also according to Wester Union the money was received in Tiko, Cameroon. I research for the guy and found only this, a brief comment (17th from above) (Enow etc.) . But I think it might be the same person http://peru.peacerevolution.net/wall/topic-99981587/the-2014-amani-african-youth-peace-fellowship-in-thailand
I can also give the IP adress from the emails, but according to an IP locator, the emails came from california (perhaps they use some kind of IP mask or this is a quite big criminal organization) , although the phone number is from Cameroon.

Even though the vast majority of the users here speak english, it might be useful to post up the emails. Who knows, it might end up saving one other person. Better to post too much about them than too little

I am sorry to hear you lost money to them, I'm afraid that the money is long gone. The odds of catching the guy are minimal.

Cameroon is a very popular place for puppy scammers, as soon as any reference to cameroon pops up you can know it is a scam. Same thing goes with Western Union (or Moneygram).

The IP address pointing to California is the address of Google's servers, not of the scammer. It's doubtful that the man you found on the website is indeed the scammer, as most of them operate with fake names.