It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Shower.

Our mission is to serve you to empower you so you make better financial decisions in

your life.

In this episode, we're going to talk about a couple of different scams and how you can avoid

following prey to them.

First, getting a four-legged family member.

And to those, a pet and later, how to tell what job postings are likely legitimate

and which ones are most likely scams?

Well, puppy fraud was a constant question or issue that we dealt with during the pandemic.

I mean, the phrase pandemic puppy was a real thing because people were lonely.

I mean, let's face it, we are social beings as humans.

And when we were locked away from our fellow human beings in so many places in the country

for so long, people looked for companionship.

And so I was hearing over and over again from people who were getting scammed.

And I did several stories on television about people who were scammed out of big money

in the whole puppy con game.

And this is something that goes on and on and on, not just during pandemics.

Google of all people has done something wild.

Google is going after people who post phony puppies for sale or non-existent puppies for

sale.

In fact, they just filed a lawsuit in federal court going after people that are doing this

kind of thing, mooring people by saying they have these adorable, beautiful puppies all

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