Scam Awareness?
NOT A QUESTION I believe I was just almost scammed. The owner sent me the request through Rover initially but quickly said that their app was glitching and they wanted to use Google chat instead. I will include word for word text because this scam seemed almost identical to another scam reported for Rover.
"Hello, Thanks for sharing me your contact on Rover and thanks for understanding me, I am delighted to share this detail which involves the supervision of my pet. My name is Ethan Paterson and my wife's name is Jennifer. My dog is at the moment living with my pregnant wife in San Francisco, California, but on the verge of moving into our new home located here in Indiana. I recently got promoted at work thus making me very busy most of the time once i resume working fully."
"You will be paid $400 weekly. I want you to watch him for 3 days a week, 3 hrs each day..."
The amount and the type of stay were both different from what was put into Rover. Significantly more money than I was expecting and it became a daycare stay instead of a overnight at their house. He went on to talk about how his financial advisor would be in touch, asking if I was mobile and telling me what expensive foods his dog would require. He then asked for my full name, email address and address so he could drop off a check. These were all red flags and I told him I needed to complete booking on the Rover. He then said he could do a phone call the next day to ease my fears and told me he didn't have the Rover app. He also asked for my phone number twice. There were many red flags such as odd language usage, inaccurate capitalization of words and grammar and of course the too good to be true payment. I am sharing this because as someone new to Rover and being my own boss I did not feel alarmed until he began asking for personal information. If I didn't see the very similar scam reported on here I probably would have fell for it. The other scam said that they would ask you to buy stuff in advance and then the check would bounce. I am not sure what else they would get out of this scam but better not to find out. Good luck out there and be safe.
The email used was patersone97@gmail.com