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Ray’s Family Parrots: real or scam?

Thenatural

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This was the first thing I seen when I returned to the bird world, scams galore.

Almost insane how many and they are good at it.

If you get burned it will make you sick just because your trying to save a buck.

There is no such thing as a pair of beautiful hyacinths for $2000 kind of thing.

See the birds in front of you or buy from a breeder with many references is best.

Scammers will send you pictured of their mother to draw you in so don't fall for it.

Its pretty sad out there however there is still some light to be found.

One love
 

MILITARYMACAW

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This content is based on victim and potential victim accounts. Government agencies and legitimate business names and phone numbers are often used by scam artists to rip you off.
Scam Type
Online Purchase Scam

Business Name Used
Ray Family Parrot

Date Reported
Oct 08, 2018

Victim Postal Code
30064

Total Dollars Lost
$1,540.00

Scam Description
I have been scammed a big way by two "businesses" in the Columbus area I will start from the begining. I have always wanted to purchase a young parrot, so I looked in the Internet and found a source that looked good based on their web site (ryanfamilyparrot.com). I contacted them (Ryan) apparently the owner. I dealt with him and ended up in getting a six week old baby parrot for $700 plus $150 for shipping. I found it to be a good price based on the other prices on the internet so. I agreed and he told which money delivery company he wanted me to use (Zelle), even though I had never heard of it, I agreed I agreed and went through my bank to make the transfer, they connected me to their web site and since it was the first time I used Zelle they only allow a transfer for $500 so I had to send him an additional $350. a couple of days after I received an email from the shipping company Easy Pet delivery telling me that they could not ship the bird because it was in a non a approved transfer cage which would cost $50 to rent plus $500 deposit which was returnable after the delivery of the bird and return of the rental cage. Also the bird was missing 3 shots which were given by their vet at a cost of $90. At the time I-thought it was ok since the $500 were returnable and agreed to send the money by Western Union as requested for the amount of $640. I sent the money but the next day I received another email saying that $400 returnable had to be paid for city permit. Again, without looking at the whole picture I agreed and sent them the $400 because the $900 would be refunded All along I communicated with the seller he confirmed that the money would be returned so I did not worry about it until I received the next emails this time asking for $700 for insurance for the bird in case something happened to it during travel.. Now. The whole pictured changed and I finally realized I was being scammed. I immediately reached the shipper to tell him I was not paying any more to go ahead and ship the bird and I would take responsibility if anything happened to it. I received another email from him (Frank) to tell me they had to receive the shipping money or the bird wouldn’t be delivered. By then I had no doubt I was being scammed so I sent the shipper an email asking to cancel the deal and return my money. At the same time I contacted the seller and asked him to cancel the sale an return the $500 I sent him and he replied he was not returning the money. Then I figured this was a scam from both the seller and the shipper as a team. I then received an email from the shipper telling me they had sent the bird to a bird rescue department because the bird had been abandoned. Since then I have tried to reach both the seller and the shipper and have never heard from them In a nut shell I was scammed for $1040. I realized lt is my fault for being so stupid in believing what people tell me and not seeing what they are not telling me Is there a way the police fraud department can reach these people and have them return the money they took by fraud. I have contacted both money transfer companies and they say there is nothing they can do since the money have been collected by the recipients. Is there any thing I can do to take these people to court to get my money back? Unfortunately I don’t have their full names, address not phone numbers. All I have is the name of their business and email address; rayfamilyparrot.com sales@rayfamilyparrot.com Easy Pet Delivery Service easypetservice@deliveryman.com Thank you
 

Shezbug

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There are some selfish terrible people out there. The above article has two different amounts that this person was supposedly scammed out of, I can't help but wonder which amount it actually was that this person lost.
 
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