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I was in search of a new golden retriever puppy and came across this website. The website seemed legitimate as I had seen the fake reviews planted on it, so I sent them an email inquiry on 11/23/2025 about a specific puppy listed on their website that I was interested in. They later sent me an email back, on 11/23/2025, stating all the information , pricing, and photos necessary about the puppy, also sending me their address. They also sent a variety of questions for me, in order to move along with the process. After a couple of days, on 12/5/2025, I decided I wanted to purchase this puppy and decided to email them back with all the necessary information they asked for, including my full name, full address, phone number. They then sent me my price and their payment information, in which I decided to use Zelle, and sent them $650, $600 being the puppy’s price, $50 being the home delivery price. The name under the Zelle account was “Tracy Charlton”, the Zelle address being “[email protected]”, which was different from the fake breeder’s name, “Jayden”. I, however, did not question this and sent the money anyways. I then emailed them the Zelle confirmation receipt as they asked in the previous email. After this, I did not receive any more emails from this email, “ [email protected]”. The next day, on 12/06/2025, I got a phone call from a random number, in which I answered. This phone call was from a guy that claimed he was the travel agent that was going to be delivering my puppy to my house, and that the shipping crate they were to use for my puppy had expired and that I needed to purchase or rent a new crate in order for them to proceed with the delivery process, so that the crate could comply with their international travel standards. He said I had received an email about this, showcasing the exact prices to rent or purchase the crate, along with the payment information to do so. I then went to the email and saw that this price they were listing was from $990 - $1500, which did not seem right to me as in the initial breeder’s email, he did not mention anything about this to me”. This “travel agent’s” Zelle name is Kenneth Ray Wirsche Jr, Zelle address being “419-975-4304”. I then researched this breeder’s website and found that a couple other people across the internet have had stumbled across and experienced this scam as well. I blocked the numbers and have not sent anything back.