Report scams
There are many different types of scams horse buyers and sellers often use.
Scammers sometimes send an email to you offering to purchase the horse. Sometimes asking you to
name your price and sometimes outright offering more money. Sellers beware, these buyers often use
rushing techniques to get horses on trucks for pickup. And when you check the your bank balance there
is no money. Buyers have more recently even started paying the money into accounts but using a
technique of dropping a digit from the account number and the money bounces back the next day into
their account. Leaving the seller with no horse or money. This technique is also used for getting frozen
semen.
Sellers always wait until the money is in your account, with regards to semen sales I would suggest
using a credit card facility if people need immediate delivery.
Often suspect emails are sent to sellers, if you are not sure, google the email address, or sender's name
and if establish that the email is a scam - report it to scam watch.
Sellers are not the only people effected by scammers: Buyers should also beware when purchasing sight
unseen horses. There are lots of horse sellers and dealers that do not have you or your children's best
interests at heart. Charleston Park always recommends a vet check. Often when you simply mention a
vet check you won't hear back from the seller (so you know there was a problem and they were trying
to sell an unsound horse to an unsuspecting buyer.)
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