Too Many Scammers = no one‘s home at this animal rehoming site
This company sells itself as a way for people who have to give up a pet or ‘Guardians’ to connect with possible new ‘Adopters’ people looking for a pet. The problem is — it’s so easy now to generate fake AI images of dogs and cats that look like the same creature from different angles. Beware, scammers are all over the place here. My first two posts got quick responses. After some back and forth with questions, I set up times to meet with the two different guardians and their pets. Although both these pet owners were in different places with different animals, I got exactly the same response from each. Same layout, same content. I was asked for additional personal information, and was told I needed to submit payment to a Venmo account for important paperwork associated with the pet’s change in ownership before the meet-up could take place. The site explicitly states guardians are not supposed to ask for payment. Adopters submit payment to the site (to keep the site up and running) once they actually adopt the pet from the guardian. The site seems like a great idea for a service - but is there actually anyone at getyourpet managing the site? Send a message about the scammers to the helpline - you won’t get a response. So not only are there scammers posting pet pictures and trying to get you to send them money before you’re even set to go meet with the maybe real, perhaps AI generated dog or cat — but the site itself might also be a bit of a scam in that all email responses are autogenerated. Pretty discouraging if you’re somebody looking for a new pet and trying to make sure that someone who has a pet to rehome doesn’t have to traumatize an animal by taking it to a shelter. While there may be some real pet owners here who are trying to connect with people like me, seems BRIAN ERIKSEN, JEFF TUCKER and ANGELA MARCUS aren’t home at their animal rehoming site.