Fake Requests - Are Other Long Time Sitter Getting Allot of These Too?

What you mention is fairly common, but don't chalk it all up to fake requests. New owners are promoted to send booking requests to several sitters during the initial booking request. This adds to confusion for the owner and also to the sitters. When the owner selects multiple sitters they don't review the perspective sitter profile, so you get a request that doesn't fit you. Odd are pretty great you will be ghosted by the owner. Many new to Rover owners don't complete the profile for multiple pets as they don't intuitively see how to do it. There does seem to be an uptick in last minute requests reported by many sitters, I see this all the time on our Rover Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rover...

I just got my first one. The owner wanted me to walk her dog but needed it immediately. I say okay because it’s just a walk. But when I show up she says she doesn’t see me. She was even describing the exact place I was in front of. So she get frustrated after not seeing me and gives up. But the next day she requested me again. I asked if she stayed somewhere different from yesterday I asked why, she says she doesn’t like scammers. I was confused but still tried to help her. I get to the new address then call. She starts saying she doesn’t have a dog and to stop calling her with all my nonsense. (Same voice from yesterday)

But after the phone call she says that it was her on the phone just now and she was testing me again to make sure I’m real. Then finds my personal number and starts asking for more services. I quickly reported her.

This is so weird, I just had this weird request come through today for a dog in NJ. I'm in GA. The client asked to book tomorrow of all things. She had two messages, one where she is asking to book and another that just says Yes like she's responding to someone else as I had not responded to her yet.

I did decline the request because it was outside of my service area and told the client I prefer to do a meet and greet and cannot accept her boarding request as there is no time to do that before tomorrow. Not sure if this is a fake request per se or maybe she's from NJ and visiting locally, but it was strange.

I personally have had another Rover sitter request a booking for $100 a month to take care of their dog all day until 10 pm. Of course, I would decline the offer, I was a little upset especially because they were a Rover Sitter and a$100 to take care of a dog every single day and all day was way below my pricing. I have also had fake accounts contact me. I started to call the phone numbers and to my surprise when the person answers they are upset because their phone numbers are being used on Rover when they never signed up. So sometimes there are real scams out there. I do wish the booking score was updated because sometimes owners request a service I do not offer and it affects my score.

We are receiving so many fake requests. We've been on Rover for a year and we're shocked. Why is this happening? What is their motive?

This happens to me frequently. I always treat them as if they are a legitimate client request. Because... sometimes they are! I've had new client requests come in that sound SUPER sketchy, but they turn out to be great people and amazing clients (they just don't come across well in writing). Aside from that, the Rover "spam" is super annoying. It seems to come in waves. I wish there was a better way of filtering it, but I think that's almost impossible to do. Once it's evident that it's spam, I decline the request and report them to Rover.