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Animal scams online

Surge in pet advert scams online in the UK

In the UK, fraudsters are advertising non-existing pets on social media for sale and this is just one tiny aspect of the burgeoning expansion of crime in the UK where the police are sitting on their hands doing nowhere near enough about it. For example, just 6% of burglaries are solved by police in the …

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Written contracts prevent scams

When buying a purebred cat NEVER BE SCAMMED if you do this

There are too many opportunities for the seller of a purebred cat to scam the buyer. Sometimes buyers purchase a purebred cat remotely, online. They don’t see the cat that they are buying in person but through a photograph. The seller might promise this and that. There is often no written contract. The seller ships …

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California law bans buying cats, dogs and rabbits online with a load which must include credit cards

California bans the purchase of dogs, cats and rabbits online with credit cards

NEWS AND COMMENT-CALIFORNIA, USA: California with New York State are, it is my belief, the two most progressive US states in respect of animal welfare and California have progressed animal welfare in their state a little further in enacting (bringing into law) an act which bans the purchase of dogs, cats and rabbits purchased online …

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