LOGAN COUNTY — A Logan County couple says people keep showing up to their house asking for puppies they bought even though their landlord does not allow pets.
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News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson spoke with the pair on Sunday. They said someone is using their address to get people to pay them for puppies that don’t exist.
A couple in Logan County got a strange knock on their door when a person showed up claiming they were there to pick up a puppy they just bought. The couple was not home at the time.
So, they talked to each other through a Ring Camera and that’s when the couple had to tell them they had been scammed.
“We were actually eating at a restaurant, and somebody rang our doorbell, and I went out there and I was just like, ‘Can I help you?’” said Brooklyn Brackney. “And they said, ‘Yeah, I’m here to pick up my pug puppy.’ I was like, ‘We don’t have any puppies. Are you this is the right place?’ And she said, ‘Yeah, this is the address that I was given.’”
Robertson said about a month later, it happened again.
“I just talked to them through the Ring as well and they said that it must have been a scam and they left and went to the police and reported it,” she said.
And Saturday, it happened for the fifth time since March.
“We were having a yard sale, and this pulled in and they walked up to me and said that they were here for their pug puppy,” Brackney told Robertson. “I told them that we don’t have any puppies, but I knew what they were referring to and she said they paid over $600 and drove a few hours to pick up their puppy.”
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She decided to message the account herself and discovered something after a few back-and-forth messages with the account.
“They gave my address,” Brooklyn told Robertson. “I said, ‘That’s so weird because that’s my address.’ I wondered why so many people were showing up and they at first played like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m not a scammer. Why don’t you have animals?’ Then they said they were trying to get me to purchase a pug puppy anyways.”
She said the Facebook account looks legit.
“It seems normal,” Brooklyn told Robertson. “I even like went their through their Facebook page and everything it seems completely legit like she posts pictures of her and everything.”
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Robertson also stopped by the Bellefontaine Police Department on Sunday.
They said to check with its records department later this week to get any kind of police report connected to this.
One sergeant did confirm to her officers responded to the house at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
We will continue to provide updates on this developing story.
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