This message submitted by one of our readers who got scammed by these pet selling syndicates who never ever send you your pet. Any law agency wanting to make contact with the person who got scammed please contact us and we will put you in touch.

I just read on your site regarding the women that was scammed with the yorkshire terrier. I am from Namibia and the exact same thing happened to me. The guy I dealt with in South Africa's name was Von Hugo and he did the same to me.  I paid him the amount of R2000.00 for the Shnauzer puppy plus R 800.00 for all the papers. Afterwards Dr Morgan also sent me an email stating that they have my puppy and that I had to make a deposit of R 5000.00 for the crate which I would have receive back once the puppy was delivered to me in Windhoek. Please find attached all the email correspondence. I am busy scanning the document and will mail it within the next two or three minutes.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:02 PM
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Subject: Re: FW: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000

We got your details we are doing arrangements

Did you do the transfer already?

Let us know ASAP
Regards


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Sent: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 2:54 am
Subject: FW: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000


From: [removed / undisclosed]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:41 AM
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Subject: RE: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000

Hi


Details attached

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The payment confirmation will follow shortly, please provide me with the flight details of princess so that I can make the necessary arrangements to pick her up.

Thank you so much to everyone for making me the happiest lady alive today.


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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:35 AM
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Subject: RE: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000

Hello

Congratulations you are the new mother of princess ..

We need the following details from you

FULL NAMES...........................?
HOME DELIVERY ADDRESS.........?
NEAREST AIR PORT TO YOUR HOME..?
TWO CONTACT NUMBERS.............?
CITY/TOWN......................................?
PROVINCE..........................................?
POSTAL CODE.....................................?
COUNTRY..............................................?

BANKING DETAILS

BANK NAME--FIRST NATIONAL BANK(FNB)
ACCOUNT NAME---MRS PORTIA BOTHA
ACCOUNT NUMBER---62325366624
BRANCH CODE--250655
AMOUNT--- R2800
REFERENCE -- PRINCESS

As soon as you do the payments , please send to us an email with the proof of payments okay

Best Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed / undisclosed]
Sent: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:53 am
Subject: RE: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000
Hi

Thank you so much where in South Africa do you live? If I qualify to buy one of you puppies would it be possible to fly her to Namibia, as it is much faster and the road is so hot for a small schnauzer baby in my opinion.  When would be a suitable time to get in contact with you.

I must say I have never seen the black and white schnauzer like the sweaty in the first photo.


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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:48 AM
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Subject: RE: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000

Good Morning

My Names are Van Hugo you email me from the website details below

Get back to us for details on transportation and please call us ASAP ON +27-83496-8550


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Good Afternoon



Hope this email finds you well, i would like to find out whether you have
schnauzer puppies at the moment. I lost my baby schnauzer due to a hart attack
and is looking for a new bundle of joy.

If you would be so kind as to get back in contact with me on my mobile [removed / undisclosed] or via email.

Thank you and kind regards

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-----Original Message-----
From: [removed / undisclosed]
Sent: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:39 am
Subject: RE: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000
Good Morning

The puppies are so beautiful I broke out in tears when I saw them.
Regarding your questions, yes I have owned a schnauzer but she died due to a heart problem on the 23rd July 2011
I do not have other pets at the moment
Yes I have two boys and they loved mischa so much and she loved them
My schnauzer Mischa use to travel with me where ever I went I never left her alone, she came to work with me, to restaurants everywhere.
I have a house with a big yard
Like I said she goes everywhere with me I never leave her alone
I live in Windhoek Namibia

Attached is a photo of my baby, please send me your name and how you got my email, as I emailed so many people to find a new baby.

Thank you so much for the photo’s you made my day.



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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:17 AM
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Subject: Schnauzer Puppies For sale R2000

HI
My Schnauzer puppies are very suitable for most families,as they are the very demanding breed to take care of, and difficult to housebreak.They will need a strong, dominant owner. They are obedient when properly trained, affectionate with their owners and excellent with kids and other house hold pets. They do well with other dogs and pets as long as they are well socialized. As a puppy they tend to chew a great deal so they must be provided with plenty of chew toys. Their powerful jaws can tear through wooden fences. They must not be allowed off the leash unless they are in very tall, fenced in areas. They can be trained for agility, competitive obedience, weight pulling and jumping, and indeed, competes in agility, obedience, weight pulling and jumping in SA at the highest level.With my puppies, No hereditary diseases are known for this breed. Well cared for, .Each and everyone of my puppies comes along with the following;

QUESTIONS FOR YOU
-have you owned Schnauzer puppies before?
-do you have other pets in your home?
-do you have kids?
-what is your work schedule?
-do you have a large acre of land?
-do you take puppies out for walks?
-where are you located?
and the email i received from Dr Morgan at pet travel:
PET TRAVEL

SOUTH AFRICA`S BRANCH

Tel: +27 - 724-330-926
Fax: +27 (0) 53 832 4226.
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Dear Client,
We are in possession of a Schnauzer puppy with her complete accessories, cage and health documents, with Delivery Create Number
Q0132 here at the PET TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL. Pet Delivery Service to be transported and delivered to the following address:

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The experienced pet moving specialists at Pet Delivery Services,the air cargo agency will handle your pet's delivery with confidence, professionalism, and trust. Pet Delivery Services NO
TRANQUILIZER rule is designed for the safety and welfare of your pet during airline cargo transport. Pet Delivery Services registered as an Intermediate Handler,is governed by the rules, regulations and mandates of the Animal Welfare Act , the AWA and the Federal Law governing scheduled airline air cargo shipments.So she is now ready for delivery.But you have to confirm the address before she takes off.
There is another thing you have to bring to us in order for your pets to be safe and have a safe Journey.We are sorry to inform you that, Due to the Hot weather notification from our Meteorological Center, We can't use your crate to transport the puppy in for security reasons, It has been evaluated by our pet specialist and confirmed with us that it is not good for the Atmospheric conditions this period.
Your pet will need a Temperature Regulator crate to be shipped to you.So you are requested to get one and send to us.Without the required crate,we are sorry,we will not handle the shipment because should any thing happen to her,we will be held responsible. We also have crates here at our office that can be hired.We hire both Crates for R150.But this will apply a caution fee of R5000.So if you wish to rent the crates from us,you are required to pay R5150 which R5000 will be refund to you as the caution fee and the crate taken back to the company. But if you wish to keep the crate,then you will have to purchase it for R5000. Please make your decision if you want to rent or purchase the crates then make your payment so that we can proceed.




MAKE THE PAYMENT DIRECTLY TO :

FNB
PET TRAVEL
62323268426
Code. 250655

NOTE : YOUR CAUTION FEE IS REFUNDABLE UPON DELIVERY IN CASH. DELIVERY TIME. 5:45PM
YOU CAN PHONE +27 - 724-330-926 FOR ANY QUESTIONS


MEDICAL SPECIALIST::::::::AMBER LARSON
VET INSTRUCTOR:::::::::LAUREN STEVE

GENERAL MANAGER

DR. MORGAN PALMA

Good Afternoon

Please find the deposit attached for the crate which has to be paid back once princess lands in Namibia

Thank you and kind regards
[removed / undisclosed]

PET TRAVEL

SOUTH AFRICA`S BRANCH

Tel: +27 - 724-330-926


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This was the last email i received from dr morgan

Dear Client,


The CBP has been entrusted with enforcing some 400 laws for 40 other government agencies, such as the South African Fish and Wildlife Service and the South African Department of Agriculture. The Pet Authorities checked and discovered that your puppy's parents are Akc registered while the puppy is KUSA registered but the documents that was asked has not come through yet and your puppy may be sent to US. The only thing you can do to get that puppy delivered to you is to back up the Akc papers and prove that you are financially viable to take care of the pup and it's going to cost you a lot.



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MEDICAL SPECIALIST::::::::AMBER LARSON
VET INSTRUCTOR:::::::::LAUREN STEVE

GENERAL MANAGER
DR MORGAN PARMA


Please stop these people i have reported the case in NAMIBIA and forwarded all the correspondence to the South African police interpol for investigation.
Should you need any further information please do not hesitate to contact me at any time.

Kind Regards
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Another version of the Western Union Money Transfer 419 Scam doing the rounds.

Attention Beneficiary,

We wish to inform you that the United Nations (UN) has taken over the
Inheritance/Prize Winning payment issue which you currently or previously
had with your transaction agents. Your funds was withdrawn by UN on your
behalf based on the fact that you where subjected to too many processes
that will make you spend more money before receiving your funds.

Your Inheritance/Winning payment was paid out to the United Nations
Organization, and they have succeeded in depositing your funds with us.
They have ordered Western Union to take full responsibility in the
transfer process of your funds, and we have received your application for
the first installment of $7,600 USD from the total amount of $1,500,000.00
USD, One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.

For some security reasons, we need you to reconfirm your Name, Address,
Age and Phone Number before receiving the MTCN for the first installment,
and we will email you others after 24 hours of receiving each payment.

E-mail Dr. Lee Yung This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

OR call our 24 hours Helpline @ +60.103.781.305 for any inquiries on the
above message.

Yours truly,

Miss. Amber El-Amin
For: Western Union Payment Service Malaysia

Hi readers, here's a new 419 (advance fee) scam doing the rounds at the moment.

FROM: ALEX NGOBANI
# 45 EDENVALE STREET,
PETERSBURG JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA

ATTENTION: (CEO).
DEAR SIR/MADAM

My name is MR ALEX NGOBANI; I am a senior government official in the department of works and housing of the Republic of South Africa and the chairman of the board in charge of the award, execution and supervision of all contracts in the Ministry of works and Housing. In 2007, I personally monitored and supervised the award of contracts for the supply of building materials and construction of ultra modern shopping complexes and medium / low cost housing units in the Eastern Cape, North and Eastern areas of the Natal province.

Myself and two of my colleagues, serving in the board, deliberately inflated and over invoiced the contract sum, leaving an excess of US$80,500,000.00 (Eighty million five hundred thousand United States dollars). At the completion of the contract, the real contract sum was paid to the original contractors, leaving the excess, which we reported to the federal Government that it belonged to the sub-contractor that handled part of the original contract. But the company we submitted as the beneficiary was a non-existing foreign company, which was a purported attempt by us to divert the money for our private use. I do not intend to mince words with you, I have to tell you the truth; this is a deal but it is 100% risk-free and genuine because the contract has been perfectly and genuinely executed and completed. It depends on whether you are interested or not.

Right now this amount is due for payment and is floating in the treasury not attached to anyone/company. We are only three people who know the origin of this fund. But we cannot claim it by ourselves because we are civil servants therefore we are looking for a trustworthy foreign company / individual whose name we can use to claim the money.

This is strictly a business deal, but it is 100% risk-free and secure because we will use our official positions to source all the necessary approvals to reflect that you/your company genuinely executed and completed the contract. All necessary arrangements have been put in place in all the relevant departments for immediate approval of this payment.

For your co-operation, we have agreed to offer you 25 % of the entire amount on conclusion of the transaction while 75% will be for us. Please if you are interested in this proposal, I want you to respond immediately through my personal e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information and directives.


This transaction is expected to be completed within 14 working days and is highly confidential and discreet.

Thank you for your co-operation. Your urgent reply is awaited.

Best Regards,

MR ALEX NGOBANI

A new Paypal email scam has started doing the rounds, at first glance the email looks very legitimate but the link they ask you to click refers you to a non-paypal link. Be aware, this is most certainly a phishing scam, do not click any of the links provided.

Thanks to one of our readers for alerting us to an old scam that is STILL doing the rounds. Such a scam once again shows another failure of the RICA system which was supposed to stop this.

Please be VERY careful of buying pets from online classified sites. There is one scammer operating on a variety of local classified web sites selling Yorkies, Bull Dogs, Birds and possibly more. The only problem is that this scammer is not selling anything but merely swindling people out of their money. In addition he has stolen photos from a photographer who reported the issue to us and he was very rude and swore at her when she questioned him on stealing her photos for using to run his scams.

The scammer uses the cell phone number 0717594007 and we hope the authorities will catch up with this person.

Submitted by one of our readers:
(we have checked the companies database and there is no registered company in SA called Worthing Electronics)

PLEASE buy your electronic goods from authorised stores and dealers, there are far too many attractive offers
online that are often 50% cheaper than the actual retail price, that alone says you are going to be scammed.
We found adverts posted by Worthing Electronics on some South African classifieds sites and they only have a
cell number and a gmail address as contact details, that's another big warning sign because any legitimate
company claiming to be an authorised Apple Distributor will not use a cell number and gmail address as their
primary contact details. Some of their ads posted here and here.

Email from our readers Reads:

IPAD for sale or Apple PC or any electronics.

On Sale by Worthing Electronics, they also go by various other names.

They appear to be based in way out places such as Bloemfontein or polokwane. Even have business addresses and office hours times.
But the shop doesn’t exist, it is a scam, they operate in a huge syndicate.

Always posting their adverts in smaller town internet publication, They never advertise in the larger online classified.

They claim 24hr delivery countrywide through fedex. And they claim to be apple retailers.
But when u phone them, they sound more like Nigerians.

BE WARNED
I have been scammed out of my money.
I have purchased an Apple IPAD from them, paid them in Full through EFT.
They promise 24hrs delivery and 30 days money back guarantee.
U get a tracking number from a bogus courier company which they say is part of Fedex which will deliver to your door.
Then u see your parcel getting tracked from the UK.
Everything seems fine until it comes to SA, then its tracked as HELD BY CUSTOMS.
Then u get a call from them saying to pay an extra R2500 for customs and they’ll pay you later.
If you fall into this trap, you will be now be swindled out of your money twice.
They promise you your 30 day money back, but nothing happens.

So, please be warned of all these so called companies like Worthing electronics or the like.
Which are not based in the so called big cities..advertising in smaller classifieds.

Do you homework properly and find out if this is a legitimate south african company.
U rather go directly to them if it’s a legal store than await this nightmare.
Or buy from reputable and recognized online stores who advertise in larger networks.

Don’t be caught out of your hard earned money.

The Hello Peter Complaint is here: http://www.hellopeter.com/worthing-electronics/complaints/please-be-warned-650455