Aware of this scam?

On the Rover Facebook groups, several sitters have posted they have recently received SCAM booking requests with the same info as you reported, but none indicated their account was hacked?? Sorry for your problem, but it shows how easy it is for hackers to get into a system.

Ha! I got a very similar message last week. My policy is to never take the conversation off of Rover, so it did not go very far, but I didn't realize it was a scam til I saw this. They also asked me to provide walking, which I do not provide, and said they were going to pay me $20/hour for boarding. I went to report them, but their profile is now deactivated.

I received this kind of request today, 11/16/18. The bad guys are still out there. If something feels suspicious, go with your gut.

Just got something similar. Very strange wording and wanted to text out of Rover right away. Which doesn't always mean anything bad, some people use it on their laptop. But after that it was all strange wording and just asking for my full name and address so he can fedex me payment for services:D Anyway, totally weird. Now I recommended to do a meet and greet and I have not heard back, and also said I am not comfortable with this and his answer was: okey. Reported it to Rover.

Thank you so much for this information! I knew the request was too good to be true, and this post helped clarify my same situation.

Hey guys. I know this is kind of an old thread now, but I just got one of these messages this morning, so it is still out there.

Me message was from a woman claiming to be from Alabama, moving to Colorado. She says she needs someone to watch her dog during this process as she will be in Istanbul.

No online payment, and wants to mail me a money order. And have her movers mail me the key to her house...

Seem legit? I think not!

This just happened to me. I received almost the same exact email. This is still happening in 2019.

A similar thing just happened to me today. I responded on Rover to a booking request. I said I'm already booked for one of the days he requested, he didn't seem to notice. He said he was at work and wanted to go through email. I know that's a red flag but some people might have legit reasons, so I gave him my email, and this is the email I got a few hours later: " Jun 24 at 2:10 PM Hello Rachael, 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 Anderson and my wifes name is Shelley. My dog is at the moment living in Texas with my wife,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 the Pup. Thanks, Tyler."

I mean, no one in the world talks like that (not even ESL people I've talked to sound like that). And it didn't mention anything I had talked about on Rover which was that I could not do an overnight stay on one of the requested stays and I said what he probably actually wanted was the 30 minute check-in service? He didn't mention that at all. And no one calls Peoria "the city". They use the term "to the city" to be vague on purpose. But in Peoria, IL, Chicago is "the city". They have this generic, confusing message they spam out probably to hundreds of sitters, so beware.

Please folks, in order to get these folks removed from Rover, please do the following:

-Report them to Rover immediately. -Do NOT respond to them -Do NOT contact them off platform. -DO be suspicious of any request that seems odd. Legit requests never need your email, for example.

Here's what happens when you respond. It gives them the impression that someone else will too. It's motivation enough for them to keep creating fake accounts until someone falls for it.

FWIW, Rover's 'bots' automatically detect specific words in all Rover messages. They usually pick up on the Spam request immediately, and remove it. That works great. However, they're checking your messages too, and since they are automated may suspend your account if it believes you are trying to take them off platform.

Someone tried to scam me today with the same behavior! There were just way too many red flags.. owner signed up on rover today, he did not want to do a meet and greet, his cousin will be the one dropping the dog off because he was out of town, he was wanting to send me a $1600 check ($400 for the stay plus an "extra bonus" of $200 and $1000 for the vet doc who's coming to give the dog a shot). Shots DOESNT even cost that much. He also claimed he was a "lawyer".. I had a hard time understanding what he was replying to me. As a lawyer, you should be able to have great communication skills. I advise you guys to have the owner-sitter conversations to stay in the rover app. Don't give out your number because it's the "easier" way to communicate. Also for general info, don't do meet and greets at the house unless they have been booked already. Do meet and greets in public! Be smart and stay safe!