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30-May-07, 06:26 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21  | | |
i posted an ad on petlink saying i'm generally loooking for bearded dragons, i recieved the below email today. i'm not that experinced at the whole game, but it struck me as odd. i might just be paranoid though so i would appreciate opinions. Hello
I got a call from a friend in Brisbane who saw your ad and he gave your address.Well as a matter of fact I had 6 pairs but now left with 4 pairs and I am having a lot of difficulties taking care of them because I am busy with a project with WWF..We are tracking a rare bird specie called the Bannerman's turaco here in Cameroon.Please I have been looking for someone to adopt them .We are so busy with work such that we hardly have time for them.that is why we have decided to give them for adoption.Selling animals is not our thing and we feel it is not right.My wife and I have decided to give only to someone caring and serious.Handling them is fun.I just shipped the other pairs to my friend who was willing to adopt them and so asked him to get someone back home who needs them too..I was in Brisbane recently but as earlier mentioned I am now out of the country with my wife for this project.Please if you are interested then reply me OK so we can arrange on how you can get them.I will like to know the kind of accommodation you have and your experience.I am willing to give you just the one you want but it will be a relieve for us if f you can accept all the pairs.Please we will be grateful; if you take care of the shipping fee.I have a CITES permit issued by the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Water Resources back home in Australia.I therefore have the permit to ship back home on NON-COMMERCIAL BASIS.That is one of the reasons why I do not and I am not selling them.All I am asking of you is to assist me first of all financially to cover part of the shipping expenses and secondly materially to provide a home for the dragons.There are other expenditures which I will personally cover such as insurance ,certificate of transfer of property etc.We paid approx $380 to ship the other pairs and equipment to my friend through Brisbane airport.It might a bit higher or lower depending on your location or nearest airport from where you can pick them up.Please get back to us if interested for details.
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif'] Thanks a lot and just hope I found the right person.I hereby attach their pictures
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30-May-07, 06:30 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: north coast NSW Age/Gender: 24 | | | | hahaha more scammers -how stupid are they |
30-May-07, 06:31 PM
|  | Friend of huey Subscriber | | | | | Extremely SUSS. do not touch with 40 ft pole.
Once you've been on this site for a while you will see the name Cameroon pop up occasionly. Someone putting out their feelers for a sucker.
Ive seen this ad before
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30-May-07, 06:32 PM
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30-May-07, 06:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Out There.........Qld Gender: | | | | Yep i agree.. Leave that one alone.. SCAMMERS
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30-May-07, 06:33 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Cairns Age/Gender: 22  | | | | stay away from camaroons wanting to give stuff away, ive seen them b4 on aps
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30-May-07, 06:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 18 | | | | what happens if u click on the links in the message? anyonebeen taken over by curiosity and clicked on em? |
30-May-07, 06:47 PM
|  | Seller | | | | It's been done to death. Search past threads... Cameroon is a no go zone...  |
30-May-07, 06:51 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | | the links don't work, i have no idea what they're about. cameroon was the first flag another susso contacted me when i started out involving leopard geckos and as soon as i said look i now know they're illegal suddenly leopard gecko is another common name for some nothern australian gecho species, i was like right bye bye
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30-May-07, 06:55 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | | weird thing was that they included moblie numbers to contact on as well
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30-May-07, 06:57 PM
|  | Mummy snake Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Here Gender: | | | | The same scam has been going around for a while now. My moto - if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Consider yourself warned and informed.
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30-May-07, 06:58 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: In My Reptile Room Age/Gender: 13 | | | | He offered me Central Netted Dragons. When i posted W.T.B add on petlink and it was worded the same |
30-May-07, 06:59 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: In My Reptile Room Age/Gender: 13 | | | | he said i only had to pay $200 for 4. |
30-May-07, 07:04 PM
| | | | also he mentioned the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Water Resources and legality would it not be npws or epa giving out licences. also is it not illegal for anyone to send any herp to australia regardless of exotic/native the only exception being zoo's |
30-May-07, 07:12 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Melbourne Eastern Suburbs Gender: | | | | Dont worry l have a friend who is a Nigerian Princess [ she is going to send me $20,000,000 ] I will get her to go to Cameroon to check it out . Now l just have to send her my bank account details . | | |
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