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Do you want my English Bulldog puppies? Weirdest spam yet.

Posted on 09-22-2007 at 12:03:59 pm by Justin, 423 words, 26943 views

I received a most unusual email today:

Hello..

I am a nurse and my late grandma was a bulldog breeder, she died about 3 months ago and left behind a male and a female english bulldog ( Sire & Dam), the female bulldog recently had a litter of 6 puppies, they are so adorable, my job as a nurse cannot allow me to take of [sic] these puppies.

I want to find them loving homes, if you [are] interested in having them, please contact me immediately.

Have a nice day.

Celine

Note: The pic was not included.

The email was sent from celine1@inmail24.com with a reply-to: celine2@2itb.com. My first reaction was, "Aww, puppies!" I'm more of a cat person (See: Zeke use the toilet), but a friend was looking into getting a puppy recently, so I immediately hit reply. That was when I noticed the bizarre email addy and realized immediately that this was spam.

You have to understand that I get a lot of emails due to the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, so seeing an email about puppies only struck me as slightly more odd than the latest tip about a faltering lender.

My question is: am I naive? Missing something? Is there some black market for puppies? What is the point of a spammed email about English Bulldogs? Is there an embedded message about v1agra or hoodia (WTF is hoodia, anyway?)? Is this some new spam tactic? What is going on here?

Update 12:11 P.M., September 24, 2007

A reader has commented that she received a response from Celine after emailing her back. Celine (who responded using a third different email addy) said:

Hello,
I was directed to contact you by your daughter (Jessica), I need help in placing both adults and puppies into a responsible caring and loving homes. Puppies are 10 weeks old and they come with complete shots and worming. I am located in Thailand and will like to ask you some few question to know if you will be capable to have my babies.Where are you located? do you have other home pets ,are they indoors or out door pets?

I will send you a copy of the below papers before shipping. Asking price is $ 400 for adoption to cover for the vet expense made and shipping is $350.
Click on the site below to view my babies.
http://www.zyworld.com/adorablebabies/Home.htm

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Have a nice day,
Celine.

I didn't realize you could ship puppies globally. And for only $350!! What a "steal"!

Categories: Bizarre, Humor • 18 comments

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Comment from: Brandon Dawson [Visitor]

· http://www.brandondawson.org

I would imagine that it's a variant of the old "419" advance-fee fraud; if you'd responded, they would probably have responded in turn with a sob-story requesting funds to ship the dogs to you. Obviously, the dogs would ultimately never arrive.

I would imagine Bulldogs were used due to their being a valuable breed.

You can get some important data on such people by looking at the source of the message, in the actual headers will be the actual servers used to send the mail. You can then view data about the IP addresses by using a WHOIS server, such as whois.arin.net.

Permalink 09-22-2007 @ 12:55

Comment from: David Mize [Visitor]

More likely this is a blanket email. They will take any responses as valid email addresses and then either add them to their list or sell them to somebody else. Best not to respond.

Permalink 09-22-2007 @ 14:16

Comment from: Camille [Visitor]

· http://www.arkansaslabradorrescue.org

Yes, this is a mass email. I got the same one today. I'm a dog rescuer, and my sister wants an English Bulldog, so my first reaction was wow!!!!!, but then I found your page. English Bulldogs sell for around $1,700 up due to the fact they can't breed themselves, you have to have it done through a vet and c-section. Nice plot for a scam though, I must admit...

Permalink 09-23-2007 @ 12:41

Comment from: Melissa [Visitor]

· http://www.ppar.petfinder.org

I just received the same email from the same person today - 9/23/07 and unfortunately I replied to them without looking into it first.

I just lost my Bulldog mix so this really tugged at my heart. Darn it!

This is the email I received ...
.....

My name is celine a single mother of 2 besutiful kids (Sarah & Joe),my grandmother who I was really close to passed away recently and left behind a male and a female english bulldog,
the female bulldog had a litter of 6 puppies through c-section for the very first time and they are so cute ,am looking to place both adult and puppies into a forever loving homes.

If you're interested in having them, please contact me immediately.

Have a nice day.

Celine.
....

How very strange that someone would so something like this. :(

Melissa
Peaceful Paws Rescue

Permalink 09-23-2007 @ 15:27

Comment from: Jessica [Visitor]

I received this spam email too today! Weird. I am a Pomeranian breeder but my mother is an English bulldog breeder. I responded just incase, but I see now that it was spam. How ridiculous! Thanks for posting this though! Very Helpful.

Permalink 09-23-2007 @ 22:15

Comment from: Jessica [Visitor]

Received an Email back from this Weirdo. She used a different email address this time (celine.kelly01@yahoo.com) Read following email... What a Joke.. now Thailand has Nigerian Scammers?

Hello,
I was directed to contact you by your daughter (Jessica), I need help in placing both adults and puppies into a responsible caring and loving homes. Puppies are 10 weeks old and they come with complete shots and worming. I am located in Thailand and will like to ask you some few question to know if you will be capable to have my babies.Where are you located? do you have other home pets ,are they indoors or out door pets?

I will send you a copy of the below papers before shipping. Asking price is $ 400 for adoption to cover for the vet expense made and shipping is $350.

Click on the site below to view my babies.
http://www.zyworld.com/adorablebabies/Home.htm
Looking forward to hearing from you,

Have a nice day,
Celine.

Permalink 09-24-2007 @ 12:07

Comment from: Matthaus [Visitor]

Am I the friend recently looking for a puppy?

Permalink 09-28-2007 @ 14:20

Comment from: tiger [Visitor]

can i have one of your puppies?

Permalink 10-06-2007 @ 13:45

Comment from: Cyndi [Visitor]

Scam for sure. More info here:

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=17682

Permalink 10-08-2007 @ 12:59

Comment from: kahunabear [Visitor]

· http://www.stockmania.com

I don't much like her music either.

Permalink 10-29-2007 @ 22:37

Comment from: English Bulldog [Visitor]

· http://www.bulldogsale.net

I manage an English Bulldog classifieds website and I can tell you with 100% confidence that is a scam.

Permalink 11-17-2007 @ 19:47

Comment from: Jennifer [Visitor]

I have been doing a lot of looking around on the internet for an English Bulldog. In researching the sellers I have only gotten replies from those trying to scam. Is this site legit? www.bullcanes.net

Permalink 11-19-2007 @ 23:59

Comment from: Cookie [Visitor]

Well I just typed in "where to sell a english bulldog and this is what I got". My daughter has a 2 1/2 or 3 yr old bulldog. He is active and loves to run and play fetch. She paid 1100 for him, but does not have time for him. We are looking for a home for him. We do not want much only about 400.00 for him. As long as he get a good him and a family that will have time for him. Please call us if interested. 512 923-0838, we live in Texas.

Permalink 11-29-2007 @ 18:02

Comment from: betsy [Visitor]

just e mail me i might be interested in a male puppy

Permalink 12-06-2007 @ 11:53

Comment from: Joe [Visitor]

I am interested in finding an english bulldog female pup for my mom. Please email me as soon as possible if you have any available.
Thank you,
Joe

Permalink 12-31-2007 @ 16:03

Comment from: Ben [Visitor]

I am interested in one of your bulldog pups so if you could please let me know respond to jangeresti@pulsenet.com THANKS

Permalink 02-10-2008 @ 15:09

Comment from: Sylvie [Visitor]

Hi Justin,

We've recently been scammed by English Bulldogs scam her in Canada. I Live in New Brunswick Canada (north of Maine, USA), this woman who was selling 2 pups in Vancouver, British Columbia (North of Washington)wanted to instant Messanger us to know more about us to decide if she was going to give us the pups. Pups were free, all we had to do was pay for the shipping. I made the arrangements myself through a reputable airline Air Canada, they told me about $200 & to tell this woman Tina Kahn to give us the PRO BILL # (all items that are shipped have this) once she get back from airport. But when she got back from airport, the airport lost the pups. I knew then it was a scam. She needed my financial help finding the pups. I called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police & Phone Busters, they both said it was a nigerian scam. I'm glad we didn't tell our kids about the dogs, they would of been devasted. don't get me wrong, My husband & I were very devasted & pissed with people that do this. Even a FAKE airport (Pet Cameroon Delivery Service) contacted us that they were going to keep the dogs in quarantine for 6 months.... here is what I found about them:

http://www.helpmerick.com/fun_with_cameroon_pet_scams.htm

some people did get scammed out of money reading on that website.

Sylvie

Permalink 02-21-2008 @ 13:31

Comment from: jack [Visitor]

· http://www.jackrussellsavvy.com

I am also looking for a pup.It bulldog is better
than others?

www.jackrussellsavvy.com

Permalink 07-03-2008 @ 00:57