I've heard lots of stories regarding all kind of kitten sale scams, but I've never thought that such thing could somehow affect our Cattery as well! This is just proof that there are real scams out there and, please, be very careful when you're paying someone you don't know! Before getting the kitten, ask the seller for a FaceTime call to see the kitten, let the owner provide you with veterinarian records and registrations with well-known cats associations, if the kitten is purebred! There should be a sales contract to protect rights of all sides: yours, as a purchaser’s, the seller’s and, of course, the kitten's! Get as much information as possible! Purebred kittens are not cheap and make sure, that you're paying your money to the right person, who puts a lot of effort to work on the specific breed and gets the value of the animals through professional judgment on the cat shows, but don't breed the animals in a dishonorable way for gaining profit.

Here is the correspondence on my cellphone with one careful person, who wanted to buy a kitten through Craigslist and suddenly decided to make a search on the name of that kitten (the fraudster did not even change the name of the kitten, leaving our photos and the name that we gave the kitten before we've sold him to his new family). Under our pictures the fraudster was selling (if he was selling any kitten at all!) the female kitten. I have immediately contacted to the owner of our kitten, to find out, if they put the kitten for sale for any reason. The kitten on our pictures was hardly reaching four months old, but the guy was selling the ten months old kitten. So new owner responded, that they even didn't think to sell him and they love that kitty! Thanks to search engine, where people can easily find my website and contact information, the person avoided spending money on that scam!