When BONQO Stops Being Polite and Starts Getting Real: Pet Scams

Here at BONQO, we love showing our sunnier side and being a positive platform for people to buy, sell, rent, find, and promote anything they want. In fact, it’s the best part of the job: being happily confident in knowing that what we are doing is safer. Therefore, we can humbly say we are a better classifieds.
But it isn’t enough to just be safer. Regardless of how much of a personal touch we put into creating this safer haven for users to list their items, there will always be someone out there in the universe hiding in the shadows, waiting to pounce on anyone who is seeking something online.
While we do our part to manually screen every single potential listing, most scam artists are so good at what they do that they take intricate steps to avoid being caught. However, with BONQO’s efforts and yours, we can ward off predators on our site.
One of the more popular scams found online is the pet scam. One variation of this scam is where the scam artist lists an ad for puppies. They list the ad in an area local to you. When you inquire, they claim to be in another state. With this, they insist that you meet their requirements for taking on a much loved pet. This may or may not create a distraction as a need to meet their standards of a pet owner in you sets in. Once your guard is down, you will be asked to send a check to them to cover costs of having the animal shipped to you.
The truth is that there is NO PET! Meanwhile, your money is gone.
We want our users to be be educated about the many scams there are out there. Guarding yourself and using your best judgement is your best defense at the end of the day. BONQO does its part in regards to monitoring potential ads. We are confident that every ad we list is legitimate. We would like to gain a reputation for being vigilant in our efforts to ward off potential scammers so that they don’t even bother trying to list on our site.
Thanks to our BONQO users reporting potentially fraudulent listings, we act immediately to keep our site clean and safer. And to potential scammers: take it somewhere else.