Most of these scammers are from Africa: Cameroon, Nigeria....

They use stolen credit cards, stolen nice animal pictures...There are suspects of scammers living in the U.S, place fake ads in newspaper but money goes back to oversea to avoid being caught

Here are some examples

Example 1

Parrot scammers have their ads on reputational U.S newspapers with an email attached.  The costs of a parrot are extremely cheap or even FREE.

when people respond to the ad,  a scammer says he/she just left to Nigeria or many countries in Africa for God work ( missionary work) or what any emotional reasons that they fake.  The scammer says the bird currently with him/her and needs to ship back to the U.S ( By the way, it is illegal to ship any parrots to the U.S , Europe and most parts of the world)  with a fee.  If you pay the shipping fees, then the scammers create many more reasons for you to send them more money.

 When I reponded to a Palmbeachpost.com ad, that how I found out

I googled their emails and found out that scammers posted the same ads on reputable newspapers all over the U.S.  They steal people identity and in one of the ad, the website pointed out a detected location is from a small town outside of Orlando, Florida.

It looks like U.S scammers or scammers associated with abroad scammers steal our identity and use those credit cards to commit more frauds.

here are the scammer info

ellingone@yahoo.com is scammer's email

wdr.sola@yahoo.com is scammer's email

Reciever's Name: Sola Walker

Address: 30 St Mary Ch Road
City: Maryland
State: Lagos
Country: Nigeria

Example 2

Parrot scammers post ads on many parrot bird websites at very low low prices.  When you respond to the ads.  The scammers use the same fraud methods to get you to send them money.....

 Many of those scammers are from Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa.....

Weak and corrupted goverments make it possible for more scammers from there.

"Parrot eggs for sale" ads are scam.  All parrot eggs need sophisticated incubators to hatch.  Here is a You Tube's warning

Parrot eggs for sale

Unfortunately, there are bad people living among us.  There are many reports parrot sellers never send the birds nor give money back to innocent buyers.   

Please read how to protect yourself from scams - info below

Here are afew Parrot bird websites' scammers using Parrot Kingdom names & their emails and phone #s - They are scammer from Cameroon, South Africa and Nigeria.  They use free websites to phishing for people identiy and credit cards.

 We tried to remove the fraud websites for 8 months, but they never take it down.  Finally with the help of http://www.fraudwatchers.org/    those sites down for now.

http://elitsparrots.webs.com/  - Frozen but may still actice as of 10-2010

Active again in Novemeber 2010.  One of my friends reported them because the site above used her contents and photos - as a result, it was down as of Dec, 2010

CARLOSMICHAELLE@GOOGLEMAIL.COM

Tinaparker2010 @) yahoo.com

00447024013383

http://parrotskingdom.webs.com/    -   Frozen but may still actice as of 10-2010

parrotskingdom@gmail.com

27728114699

http://parrotskingdom.tripod.com/  - Dead - Removed on 10 - 2010

Please note:  Free websites make it MORE possible for scammers to steal your identity and commite frauds.  Usually free websites have many ads on the top of its pages.

www.webs.com offers free websites, but they take little efforts to fight fraud.  I and many other parrot sites reported their free websites fraudulents but they make it hard for us to report and after 8 months, the scammer websites are on.

How many scammer sites use www.webs.com free websites?  Noone knows.  I hope www.webs.com makes it easy to remove frauds from their free websites hostings.

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/

To report scams please click the link above, then select Contact Us

With the helps of www.fraudwatchers.org  are able us to remove scammer sites above.  Thank you for your good work

1. Buy parrot bird locally
2. Never send your money abroad  
3. if the prices are too cheap to be true or even offer parrots for free, then it is fraud
4. Be careful with free websites.  They usually have ads on top of its pages
5. If you really must buy parrot from out of states then

Get their references from their out of states' customers

Google their emails and phones to make sure 

Check their references - call to talk to the sellers directly

If you don't feel comfortable with their process, stop it and walk away

Here are some places that you can check locally

Bird Talk Magazine - Local ads on its back pages

www.birdbreeders.com - websites you can check parrots available from your states

http://sandiego.ebayclassifieds.com/ - click the link to your local site, then select Birds under Pets section.

Your local bird parrot clubs

Your reputational local petshops

Local parrot keepers

The websites below are haven for scammers.  Mostly users can not or hard to report scams from these sites

https://www.oodle.com

if you select animals to birds - http://pets.oodle.com/birds/90065/?inbs=1&r=50

https://www.birdsnow.com

https://www.alibaba.com - For instance - you type: african grey parrots on its box - Search products -

you will see the results for african grey parrots from all over the worlds

Most are from Cameroon, Nigeria... Even ads in U.S or Britian are from Africa

kennymorgan66@g-mail.com  - Fraud

theeye92@gmail.com - Fraud

COUNTYGIRL54@GMAIL.COM - fraud

ESJOESS@GMAIL.COM - Fraud