fake breeder websites becoming more professional french british bulldog example
fake breed websites they’re on the rise
folks and they’re becoming more and more
professional
chillingly so in fact welcome back to
pops for sale now YouTube channel where
we placed a lot of videos about
detecting and avoiding scams and this
video is produced in April 2015 one of
the most sophisticated if not the most
sophisticated fake read websites we’ve
ever seen even including a landline
number as you’ll see up here which we’re
going to ring in a minute let’s see what
we can find we’ll walk you through this
and we’ll also tell you how we found it
okay they’re French Bulldog pups for
sale French bulldogs obviously one of
the most common scam breeds that are
used to suck people in British bulldogs
etc as we’ve covered before now let’s
look at some of their pages to start
with their home page they’ve got a
landline as I said we’ll call that in a
minute and we’ll see what happens they
have also got only social media pages
set up again the level of
professionalism is rising all the time
good quality site they’ve got
information about us contact us they’ve
even got an e-commerce shop these people
are serious yet they are scammers and we
will show you how we’ll scroll down the
home page you see bubbly embedded videos
from YouTube pictures and so on now just
notice here two and a half thousand
dollars that’s the first thing you
notice three thousand dollars okay too
cheap for a French Bulldog not way too
cheap enough to draw people in to go
this might be a bargain and getting more
and more clever the days of really cheap
ads you know saying five hundred dollars
and that are just about over because
they know they’re going to get detected
hmm a lot harder to detect this one okay
so we’ve got here we go British bulldogs
okay not just satisfied with French
bulldogs British bulldogs again the two
two and a half thousand enough to suck
people in thinking they’re getting a
bargain but how do we know this is a
fake
after all looks very professional well
let’s look at another page on their site
their about Us page now they’re called
French dog french bulldog puppies for
sale Sydney calm one heck of a mouthful
now let’s see what happens when we have
a look at this page
and see what the about us says okay and
they’ll give a reason why they’re not in
Sydney because they don’t want people to
come to their address of course because
it’s a fake address started our breeding
program in Sydney had our first can also
a domain name wrong spelling thereof
domain of course has Sydney again you
see Sydney with a cat a capital say
another little hint that things might
not be right we have now moved to a
larger kennel in Queens and indeed they
have hmm
so they’ve got British British and
French bulldogs lifetime genetic health
guarantee and they’re getting very
clever again have a look at this they’ve
got some of these common diseases that
are found in these sort of talks
including the luxating patella things
that really only breeders would know
unless as is the case these cameras and
I asked cameras I’m really doing their
homework
okay our kennels proudly exhibits a dog
shows in Victoria and so on now when we
try and ring this number a minute
we’ll see what they’ve got to say about
their kennel prefix purrs course they
need a kennel name to advertise let’s
see what happens okay so again it all
sounds reasonable it’s just a few bells
going off that something might not be
quite right now let’s have another look
at another page on our side on this side
this is a testimonials page and we’re
also going to use this page as a quiz to
see exactly how good they are because
they pinch testimonials from other sites
real ones and they also create their own
depending on how good their English and
grammar is now in this testimonials
again very professional page all right
so this is supposedly from Josh and Lee
and they’re saying hi Jeff okay and then
we’re saying hi Gwen and Jeff let’s see
when we ring this landline if someone
answers it it will be a compromised
landline which is being used by Skype to
connect them and these people are in
Pakistan and I’ll show you how we know
that in a minute
okay so we’ll quiz them or say ah can we
speak to Gwen or Jeff please let’s see
what they say see if we can trip them up
all right so again look reasonable they
sound right as far as testimonials go so
again this level of professionalism even
the graphics scary stuff huh
I will show you just hold on and we’ll
show you now they’ve even got to the
trouble of writing a blog goodness
gracious me a blog I mean this is this
level of professionalism is just out of
the park and it shows how serious they
are about stealing your money I don’t
care about anything but stealing your
money if they have to take it to this
level of professionalism to do so they
will and they are so this is a blog here
now some really good information okay
again good quality blog page now we’ll
see here the latest mmm good photos
French dog bulldog puppies of the cutest
pups ever of course written by Samia
it’s an interesting name because we have
Jeff and Gwyn on the other page hmm
we’ve got more picking how to pick them
out mmm sameer again you’ll notice these
dates March 24th this scam site was set
up in early March and they’ve been
working on it ever since
they’re going to get a surprise shortly
when we release the hounds on them so to
speak but anyway we’ll go to the air in
a minute so again how to select french
bulldog puppies here’s Sameer again just
keep that name in mind now let’s have a
look at the social media pages and again
just like the blogs they’re getting
really professional by putting on good
quality social media pages by bulldog
puppies in Australia this is their
Google+ page okay they’ve got videos
they’ve got a little bit of information
again you’ll see but it’s starting in
March okay so this is when they started
the schemes all about trying to rank on
Google’s search engine results pages and
also on the classified ad sites that
they’re advertising on and we’ll show
you some of them shortly
again the usual suspects all right so
that’s the Google+ page looks
professional let’s have a look on
Twitter as well
they don’t leave any stone unturned
because the money that they can get from
Australians being sucked in is a huge
earner for them and so they’re really
targeting Australia here we go look at
that good quality again seen late March
is the the latest post good quality
photos and so on using videos all sorts
of things do hang on in a second who
were they connected to why he’d well
there you go and he’s that Sameer and we
were looking at Samia was there the
fellow that wrote that blog post just
keep that in mind okay let’s have a look
at their Facebook profile these are
things that whether you’re interested in
French bulldogs or any other breed be
aware of when you are surfing the net
looking at profiles for those breeds you
can come across very professional fake
social media profiles as well as the
websites now we’re going to report each
one of these profiles to the host
Google+ Twitter and so forth shortly
when we’re done but we’ve left them up
here for now and most of these social
media sites are good at pulling them
down Twitter and Google+ particularly
Facebook is pretty hopeless but they get
there in the end
ok here we go this is their Facebook
page now they’ve only got nine likes and
one visit and so on
okay but again set up in March looks
professional now let’s have a look here
now as they said they’re called french
bulldog puppies for sale in Sydney now
this one here they’re in Koran de ok so
they’ve moved to Queensland but they put
in Koran doron because it’s unlikely
anyone’s going to be nearby enough to
come and visit them that’s up that’s out
sort of key and so and they’re trying to
protect themselves with saying I’ll
looking at you’re too far away you know
etc etc ok so they own Kareena this
actually we won’t go into it now but
this is actually the location for a
legitimate boarding kennels
alright so they’ve got two and a half
thousand again that price is a bargain
twelve weeks old
full a MKC paperwork which is Australian
national kennel club which
is not right because I’ll have a state
canine council paperwork for their
registration papers here we go
there’s one that word that we’ve warned
about before shott say that’s American
term we don’t use that here obviously
getting more and more suspicious clean
bill of health and so on now look at
this email address hmm and this is
another tip we’ve given previously you
can always run their email addresses in
a Google search it’s not foolproof but
it may will show up something suspicious
let’s have a look when we do so we’ve
run this in a google search and we’ve
had some interesting results let’s see
what we come up with when we do so you
just copy and paste it into Google and
this will come up in just a sec and
we’ll show you the results as we said
before the usual suspects that they’re
advertising on other classified ad sites
let’s see here okay this is that
Facebook page had set up fair enough
okay because that email address is
listed there hmm there on quick sales
comm do you another Pirates lair that
they don’t check their ads so we won’t
go there today hang on a second number
three Perth mmm very busy they’re going
from Sydney to Koran de to Perth they’re
advertising in Perth and these ones are
two thousand dollars getting even
cheaper so you can use this as a way to
look there’s a result that we put up as
scams
being run on the Trading Post which is
still occurring this is their Google+
page here that we just highlighted so
anyway so this one in Perth it’s just an
example okay so are you getting more
suspicious you should be not a foolproof
way but a good another tool to use to
check okay now remember Samia we went to
a site called who is calm which shows
you the details of where sites are
located who owns them where they’re
hosted who’s the registrar for the site
now you don’t need to be a technical
expert to work this out so go to who is
calm here and type in the domain name
which we did french bulldog puppies for
sale sydney now they’re hosted by one of
the biggest registrar’s in the united
state
Go Daddy that’s not suspicious a lot of
Australian sites are hosted on their
servers hosted at Hostgator now we’re
going to obviously make a complaint to
Hostgator shortly and let them know
Hostgator is a big hosting company no
problems there and they’re very good at
pulling down fake sites now let’s have a
look and we’ve highlighted this for you
dunt dunt dunt da there he is Samir mmm
and where is he
room 6 a cyber hostel this is an
internet cafe Islamabad flem Abed Sydney
is led a bit clamor bad coriander less
lemon bad person Islamabad Pakistan even
got a phone number on there
there is old Samia so if that’s not
enough evidence for you well you’re very
trusting too trusting now let’s go back
and have a look at this phone number
let’s have a let’s give it a call I’ll
put it on speakerphone live a call and
we’ll see what we can find
we might get nothing they might answer
the phone if it’s a compromised Skype
number they’re likely to answer the
phone
it could be just another a business
where they just using a fake phone
number and the pair’s prominent on their
website so let’s see we might get to
speak to a scammer
all right we’re calling now let’s put it
on speaker see if we can get in contact
with these people it’s actually ringing
so it’s a connected phone number
depending on the level of sophistication
they could have an agent in Australia
who is acting with them in the criminal
syndicate or it could be just as we said
in an unsuspecting cry hello I’m calling
about the french bulldog puppies you’ve
got for sale can you please give me a
call back on this number I like to have
a chat with you about it very very
interested thank you
did you notice the foreign accent of the
recorder of the message okay that that
phone number is being diverted it’s most
likely on skype and being diverted to
Pakistan and they’ve got that messaging
system commonly used by the scammers
because if they answer the phone and
I’ve got a Pakistani accent works like
that the jig is up so what they’ll
probably do is they’ll probably text
back to this mobile number that I’ve
message them from when deliberately
didn’t leave the phone number on voice
let’s see what happens and we’ll keep
you posted so you can you could hear
that that foreign accent on the message
system and that’s a classic so someone
in Australia may be acting for them as
an agent but that is definitely in our
experience a compromised Skype a phone
number
all right so but not only do they put
these fake breda profiles up on their
own sites they also to get known to get
as much publicity as they can they also
advertise and classified sites like we
showed you before on those search
results that was on quick sales addicts
Australia and here’s another one and
this is most concerning for you yes
indeed doggish we’ve exposed dogfish
before and here they are again here’s
one example there now this is a really
cheap one two thousand dollars so
they’re giving the game away they’re
probably getting desperate because it’s
the same syndicate as before and this is
another one here two thousand dollars
and will show you those individual ads
what’s really concerning about sites
like doggish is they say that here we go
phone verified seller now what happens
is unlike up for sale they’re not
manually checking their ads what’s going
on here is they’ll be using software
that’ll send an SMS message to the phone
number that has been compromised and so
they’ll do it that way to confirm that
the phone number is in fact legitimate
however it’s legitimately being run by
the scammers and if they actually did
their research they would show they
would know so clearly as we’ve shown you
that these are scammers this is not a
phone verified seller it’s a phone
verified scammer
now you’ve got $2,000 on this one again
you might recognize the photos from that
that website we’ve shown you and they’ll
say on their french bulldog puppies for
sale Sydney calm so again they’re trying
to send as much traffic to their website
as they can
another add-on doggish and as we’ve said
this symbol that they use to say that
their phone verified is not because
someone like us is actually rung them up
check them out it’s because they’re
using software instead of doing a proper
job and actually verify them so you
cannot trust this if you do you’re
asking for trouble so as I said we’ve
exposed obvious before for hosting scam
ads they’re still doing it but the main
thrust of this video is beware of these
professional fake breeder websites are
very professional they are getting
increasingly so unless you know what
you’re doing you can be sucked into on
Beware things like just a little bit too
cheap price unable to call someone
directly their locations shifting around
and so on so if in doubt of course
contact us at pups for sale happy to
assist you with any queries you may have
contact admin check out a scam
information this video will be embedded
on their site shortly to stay safe
always so that’s some more tips from the
team at pups for sale or calm today you
stay safe folks and keep your
hard-earned money in your pocket until
the time comes to buy a real puppy for
your home
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