Puppy Scammers Steal Thousands
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
After the loss of the family dog, Tana is determined to find a new canine companion for her husband who suffers from dementia. Hoping to surprise him for Christmas, Tana finds a breeder online and sends payment, but the puppy doesn’t arrive, and the breeders keep asking for more money for expenses. Hear how investigators from Google’s CyberCrime Investigation Group follow leads on these types of crimes every day, leading to international arrests and litigation.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the Perfect scam. |
| 0:02.0 | Then they called and said, |
| 0:05.0 | if you don't pay this, we will follow a lawsuit against you for puppy abandonment. |
| 0:10.0 | Puppy abandonment. |
| 0:11.0 | Puppy abandonment, oh my God. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, well, all you want to get is a puppy for your husband right? |
| 0:16.1 | Mm-hmm. I kept saying it to myself but you know it's still wanting to believe that |
| 0:22.3 | everything was going to be okay and |
| 0:23.7 | then I finally put a call into the police and they said there is no such law as |
| 0:31.0 | puppy abandonment. |
| 0:32.0 | So no such law as puppy abandonment. So how did that feel? |
| 0:37.0 | It sunk. |
| 0:39.0 | My heart's just absolutely sunk. Welcome back to the perfect scam. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:50.0 | Forgive me for getting personal for just a moment, but many of you know my dog |
| 0:54.9 | Rusty who'd I'd mention from time to time in these podcasts. He sat at my feet for almost every |
| 1:01.4 | interview you've heard and once in a while he'd figure out how to sneak into the |
| 1:05.8 | recording. Well after 11 years by my side, Rusty crossed over the rainbow bridge a weeks ago, and the hole in my heart is, |
| 1:16.0 | well if you know, you know. |
| 1:19.0 | Now recently I met someone else who just lost their family dog, Max. |
| 1:23.8 | And well, the whole in their heart was much, much bigger as you'll understand in a moment. |
| 1:30.1 | What a set of criminals did to this family at this fragile time is |
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