Aware of this scam?

Be careful everyone, they are getting trickier and more dangerous! I suspect, that I missed becoming the victim of a predator set up!

I got a request from a guy today, his newly created profile only had a pic of his dogs. He was requesting house sitting services over a date range. I asked him to provide me more info about his dogs before scheduling a meet/greet. Not more than a minute later, I got a different request from a lady to come watch her cat every other day for three days but the booking request was for only two days. In my profile it says I need at least three days advance notice but she was insistent I meet up with her TODAY, ASAP. as she was not going to be available otherwise. When I replied back that I was unavailable to meet/greet today, she said she would look for someone else as she was going out of town tomorrow. Then a few minutes later, the original guy replied to my message to him about house sitting and his two dogs. Suspicious that the requests would come in so close together! Almost overlapping each other!

The first guy came back that the rover app was glitching and that my message was "breaking up". IN his message he wanted me to text him directly and provided me a phone number to text him at and he outlined that he was looking for weekly services (not a specific date range) . My fishy meter is going off big time with these requests.

Lessons learned: - predators will try all sorts of diversionary tactics to get you to agree. To create a sense of urgency, or distract you from their true intentions. Always be wary and protect yourself by asking a lot of questions, and using logic to think through a situation before accepting any booking!

I think I may also be getting scammed. His profile was created same day of contact, no photo. Initially his profile said he lived in the bronx and then he said he lived in my area. Then he gave me a phone number to contact him off the app. While on the phone with him, he offered to pay me more than what I was charging.

I got sent the fake check today. This is the first time I ever accepted an offer off Rover site. It seems someone already reported the profile thankfully. So scary, people suck, I’m just trying to work!

Newer Rover here, and yup just got almost a carbon copy of this. Messages sent early in the morning, but oddly enough they ask me to text a different number, than the one they are contacting me from. The person spoke quite oddly in text, same recipe as all these others, saying they have a wife, would be moving from out of state, can't do a meet & greet, etc. Finally when they were saying, they'd need my full name & address, I knew something was up. You all can see, this is December 8th, 2020, this is STILL going on. Thank you to OP and everyone else who posted, this was the first result that came up from a Google search for, "Rover scam." I'll be mindful to look out for this in the future!

Wow, it's been a couple of years since I've been active on here, and I've forgotten what the signs of a scam are. Good thing I checked here! I just got a message yesterday and he wanted my personal phone number (which I stupidly gave, but I haven't responded to the text). Here's what was sent to me below. Very similar wording to some of what I've been reading. I'll be blocking this phone number and reporting the profile.

"Thanks for sharing me your phone number on Rover and thanks for understanding me,I am delighted to share this detail that involves the supervision of my pet. More importantly, the custody of my beloved dog. My name is Tyler and my wife’s name is Shelley. My dog is at the moment living with my pregnant wife in Nevada Avenue, southeast corner of Colorado Springs, but on the verge of moving into our new home located here in the city. I recently got promoted at work thus making me very busy most of the time once i resume working fully. I am currently here to finalize some-paper works for the office, and more also, to supervise furnishing of the new house. My wife also runs a small scale event planning service that she runs on contract basis. Thus, limiting care for the dog once she arrives. This is a huge change for us, so this is where i hope you come in and offer us your assistance because i want everything to move smooth and stress-free during this transition, especially with Tom.

Thanks, Tyler."

Also, WHO NAMES THEIR DOG TOM??

just got done with the same shit happening to me. he wanted me to buy $4000 of dog supplies. when he refused to pay in cash and refused to pay weekly, i called shit off and reported him.

This is happening to me right now! A woman named Carolyn Meyer contacted me to either sit or board her yellow lab, Lyonel. She said she was moving to my area from New Mexico and that the moving company had her dog. She said she had to fly to Turkey last minute to do a research project for the EPA and that it had been her dream, etc etc. I thought it was weird a moving company had her dog but ignored my suspicions because she offered me double the amount of the stay "for my trouble." I stupidly gave her my address and phone number, she sent me a questionnaire on a different website to "make sure she could trust me to sit her dog." She told me her company that sent her to Turkey would be sending me a check for $400. Then later she said the company made a mistake and was sending me $2000 and that $1600 of it was for the moving company, and asked me to cash the check and pay the movers. I figured it out today that it's all a scam, even though I already knew but was hopeful. She gave me a legitimate address near my house so I'll be going to that house to let the real owners known their house is being used as a scam!

I don’t usually make comments, but I feel like I need to share this because things like this make my blood boil and I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone on here. If you see this message or anything like it, do yourself (and everyone on Rover) a favor and report it!

Hello,

How are you doing? I hope all is going on fine. I'm Laura Yarnell,i am 33 years old single. I'm looking for a dog lover that can take care of my dog with passion. My address ( ). I just rented it as i am relocating to city from Albuquerque,NM . I work on contract basis with United States EPA on a private research work and i just got transferred.

I have a lovely dog(Brody). Gets along well with other dogs and pets. I need a dog lover that can take care of my dog on( ) either in my new home or yours. I need this urgently because am traveling to Istanbul,Turkey for an urgent research program,have been dreaming of traveling out of this continent since i was a kid,this is just an opportunity for me to do that.

I am not going to be around all through to take care of my dog but i have a plan which is why i need someone to take care of my dog for me. I am ready to pay for both day and night services,and in case you have job to do during the day,my dog can stay alone in the day after feeding,this would make my journey easier.

Let me know if you are still available to do this,i have a question naire i will like you to go through,let me know if i can send it here to you. Thanks

After this message, they will proceed to ask you to fill out a questionnaire and ask for personal information to send a United States Cashiers check.

Hi guys! STILL HAPPENING as of March 2020. I get a request for two week house sitting from a new profile.

Anyways, the message seems normal: “ My dog is very friendly with everyone around. He also sleeps with me at night time and he is only my alarm to wake up. He is very Smart, fun, and very playful. I love him and he’s brought so much joy!”

So I respond with questions about the dogs (Sam’s) schedule and he replies “ Awesome! It seems this piece of app keeps freezing up a lot on my handheld. I think that shouldn't be a distraction to make things workout for us. Do you mind if I get your cell number so we can text and talk about it?”

I give him my number (yes yes I know, red flag, but I didn’t think it was a scam at the time,) and he says he’ll send out a text soon. Only a few minutes later do I get the whole usual shindig I’ve been seeing on this thread:

“ Thanks for sharing me your phone number on Rover and thanks for understanding me, I am delighted to share this detail that involves the supervision of my pet. More importantly, the custody of my beloved dog. My name is Paul and my wife’s name is Shelley . My dog is at the moment living with my pregnant wife in Nevada Avenue, southeast corner of Colorado Springs,but on the verge of moving into our new home located here in The City. I recently got promoted at work thus making me very busy most of the time once i resume working fully. I am currently here to finalize some-paper works for the office,and more also, to supervise furnishing of the new house. My wife also runs a small scale event planning service that she runs on contract basis. Thus, limiting care for the dog once she arrives. This is a huge change for us, so this is where i hope you come in and offer us your assistance because i want everything to move smooth and stress-free during this transition,especially with Sam. Regards; Paul”

Anyways, he goes on a bit more about the foods that Sam eats and how he wants an estimate on the food and upkeep and whatnot.

Lmaoooo why are they so bad at scamming?

Be careful out there guys!