{"id":15623,"date":"2020-07-10T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:09:25","slug":"rcmp-investigating-after-person-who-was-to-purchase-puppy-scammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=15623","title":{"rendered":"RCMP investigating after person who was to purchase puppy scammed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELMSVALE:<\/strong> On July 7, Halifax District RCMP responded to call of a fraud in Elmsvale, which is near Middle Musquodoboit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim told police he had made arrangements to purchase a Golden Retriever from a website he found online. The puppy was to be shipped from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Halifax by air and there were additional costs associated with that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the seller asked for additional money for pet insurance, the victim suspected he was being defrauded and he contacted police. The victim sent a total of $2800 to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RCMP is continuing their investigation into this incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police want people to know that anyone can be a victim of a scam, and it&#8217;s important to view all purchases with a critical eye at all times. At any time, if you feel you are the victim of a scam, or if you want more information about frauds and scams, there are resources that can help:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/index-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/index-eng.htm<\/a><\/li><li>Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/scamtracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/scamtracker<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also contact your local RCMP or police for advice if you feel you&#8217;ve been victimized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;21&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELMSVALE: On July 7, Halifax District RCMP responded to call of a fraud in Elmsvale, which is near Middle Musquodoboit. The victim told police he had made arrangements to purchase a Golden Retriever from a website he found online. The puppy was to be shipped from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Halifax by air and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[1228,14],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-fraud","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}