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Midwest Pet Finder has 2 methods of dealing
with the scammers:
Scam Ads
When ads are run on our site, we verify the
location of the poster through IP Address. If there is still
suspicion, we Google all of the contact information on the order,
until we have verified that we are dealing with a legitimate seller.
Our system is not automated, so that we can verify all points of an
ad, before it is released to the public.
Scam E-mails
When E-mails are forwarded to us, we verify if
the e-mail is a scam. If it is, the e-mail address, phone number,
and any other contact info the scammer sent, is added to our know
scammers list. This list is crawled by Google very frequently. If
you Google a scammers e-mail address, and they are listed on our
page, the Scam E-mail page will usually be in the top 5 results. In
most cases, it will be number 1.
Is there anything else
we can do?
Sadly, no there isn't. Due to the fact that the
scammers are in Nigeria, our government has no jurisdiction over
them. The Nigerian government supports their scammers. Apparently,
scamming us, is their highest form of revenue. |