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Via Facebook site “Lucky Dog Small Breed Animal Rescue’” I inquired about a dog they had listed. I filled out an application (which I completed via “Luckypawsrescue” link) and immediately began a conversation via Messenger with a person name Deborah Maxwell. My application was pretty much immediately approved and then they wanted a video of my home which I submitted. I was then given a phone number to use to contact the dog’s foster parents to make arrangements for picking up the dog. Then, the payment process for the dog began. I was told I needed to pay a deposit of $350 up front and I would then need to pay the remaining $150 to the foster parents when I met them to actually pick up the dog. I should have known something was amiss then because many of the payment methods I tried to use would not go through and “Deborah Maxwell” kept directing me to other methods to try. I finally successfully made the $300 deposit payment for the dog via Apple Pay. ‘Deborah Maxwell” affirmed that they had received the payment and that’s when all communication ceased. The Facebook page content for Lucky Dog Small Breed Animal Rescue was no longer available and Deborah Wheeler had disappeared from Messenger. The number for the folks supposedly fostering the dog went nowhere either. I was sucked in and am filing this complaint in the hopes that the same thing won’t happen to anyone else.