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December 6th, 2020, 12:29 AM #1
Beware of emails scamming dog owners
I just received several emails about our dogs, naming them, and providing the owner's name (although they misspelled it once). Says we need to renew our annual dog licenses. Looks legit. Except it's probably not.
The site is " padoglicense.com ", and multiple news stories from 2019 claim that it's a foreign scam, aimed at collecting your cc data and stealing from you, and possibly committing identity theft. Plus, you don't get a real dog license.
https://www.northcentralpa.com/commu...118a23506.html
https://presspublications.com/conten...-scam-reported
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/1...-official.html
This one from 2018 says the site is legit, but the 2019 stories say it's a scam, and their source is the owner of the site, so what possible reason would HE have to lie?:
https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi...531-story.html
The media contradict each other, so use your own judgment. I suspect that the state sells off lists of personal info, the way they've done with driver's license info. So a scammer could purchase a list of all licensed dogs and the names of their owners and their addresses, then send out scam emails. Or maybe it's legit after all, and the journalists got it wrong in 2019.Attorney Phil Kline, AKA gunlawyer001@gmail.com
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December 6th, 2020, 01:05 AM #2
Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
Interesting.
In Allegheny county, you get the license through the county treasurer's department.
I would ignore anything about renewal that wasn't coming from the treasurer.
I would ignore that too actually, since we have the lifetime dog licenses.I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
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December 6th, 2020, 01:47 AM #3
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Sed ego sum homo indomitus
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December 6th, 2020, 02:03 AM #4
Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
My girlfriend and her mom have been using that site for atleast 4years to renew in fayette county and get new tags every year. Now that she's in Westmoreland we did lifetime licenses.
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December 6th, 2020, 02:23 AM #5
Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
I just received an email from PAdoglicense a few days ago looking for the 2021 renewal. Glad I procrastinated it as usual. I will habe to.find the bill from last year and see who unpaid it to.
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December 6th, 2020, 09:14 AM #6
Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
Unlike the "uniform" process for LTCF across the state (yeah, right!), there is no uniform online process for dog licenses. I've seen that site, and my personal impression was it was like those "take our class for 34 state CCW" offerings.
It offers a service that isn't necessary, at a price. In the case of the dog licenses, the company will, for a fee, submit the paperwork to the right place and you get the license. Not necessary, but given the lack of technology employed by small county departments like the Treasurers Office, it gets a fair amount of business just by popping up when someone googles "get my pa dog license."Get your "Guns Save Lives" stickers today! PM for more info.
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December 7th, 2020, 02:18 AM #7
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December 8th, 2020, 09:18 PM #8Junior Member
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Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
The website that popped up late last year that was a scam was padoglicense.online and has since been taken down.
Bucks County offers a lifetime license.
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December 8th, 2020, 09:44 PM #9
Re: Beware of emails scamming dog owners
There's enough conflicting info out there that I'm steering clear of any private website for this purpose. We went to the local SPCA, they're a licensed agent for the county. Paid a buck extra per tag.
"As a rule of thumb, if you search for a site to renew your dog's license and end up in a .com domain (such as padoglicense dot com), it is likely a scam. A .gov domain, such as the Department of Agriculture's dog licensing page, is legitimate."Attorney Phil Kline, AKA gunlawyer001@gmail.com
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December 8th, 2020, 09:55 PM #10
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Is this dog license so they can drive or carry concealed?
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