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.