Online puppy scam: People tricked into paying for canine that never arrived
The promise of pure-bred puppies has taken the online world by storm after several incidents of puppy scams were reported across the United States. The shocking incident emerged after Google filed a lawsuit against a conman based in Cameroon for defrauding thousands of people by “perpetrating a puppy fraud scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for personal gain.” In the lawsuit, the giant tech company listed 20 sites as fraudulent saying that the person in Africa used several Google services in the scam.
Source: wionews.com