Give away blue and gold macaw parrot male and female for adoption.

[taniasanche0]

we are giving away our blue and gold macaw parrots male and female, they are healthy and full feathered and has been genetically tested to prove they are a male a female . All medical records are available. They are always out of their cage. They are extremely smart and very quiet. They do talk but will not scream or become loud. They are very friendly with the owner and new all family members. They has always been pampered with daily food along with their seeds, and filtered water (very picky). They usually likes to be petted at nights, they will ring their bell when they wants to be petted. Looking for someone with parrot experience to enjoy them. These animals need a lot of attention and constant care. Please only serious inquiries are allowed.

 

[Scott]

I am sorry you are unable to care for your pair of blue and gold macaws. Can you share the general location to help potential adopters?

 

[texsize]

Um...Hmm.
I find this a little suspicious. I hope I am wrong.

 

[Allee]

Best of luck finding a home for your perfect pair of macaws. Most macaws, even well trained ones are seldom quiet. You must have invested a ton of money caring for them. I'm curious, why are you giving them away?

 

[Kentuckienne]

It's a scam, of course. Exact same ad in several places, only different parrots.

 

[EllenD]

I've not seen this one, they're "Giving their Macaws away" huh? That's a new one...

These parrot scams are getting out of control, combined with the English Bulldog/French Bulldog/Boston Terrier/Pug scams. In fact, I'm not sure there are any ads at all out there for an English Bulldog or French Bulldog that are real, and now there are just as many African Gray and Macaw scams. I love that on Craigslist different scammers are so lazy that they are just using the same photos used in ads posted by some other scammer the same day!

Almost two years ago the rescue I volunteer at started specializing in helping people that have been scammed by people advertising puppies online and using Western Union/MoneyGram to steal their money. I actually have had about a dozen cases where a puppy did in fact show up at the airport on the day expected, but it was always a mixed breed of bulldog, not purebred, and the sad part was every puppy had parvovirus and all but 3 died within a week or less. The only satisfaction I've ever gotten from working these cases are the ones where a sick puppy actually arrived at the airport, because these people were in this country. The scammers who just take money and disappear are typically in Cameroon. I actually managed to nail a couple operating a horrible puppy mill (if you could call it a puppy mill, it wasn't that nice or organized) out of Maryland (most are in Maryland, Washington DC, Deleware, and Virginia for some reason). With the help of Verizon Wireless and the Hagerstown Police Department, we set up an online buy for a French Bulldog puppy with this couple that had scammed somewhere between 50-100 people, sometimes taking their money and disappearing, but usually either shipping a horribly sick mutt puppy by airplane or in several cases planning to meet people in a parking lot or abandoned house and when the buyer arrived there would be a puppy inside a cardboard box that was taped shut, and in some instances the puppy was dead and had been dead for some time. It was awful, they scammed a grandmother trying to buy a puppy for her grandson who had lost his mother in a car accident, and that was when they finally nailed these people. It felt good! Unfortunately there is really no way to catch the scammers operating out of Africa or other Continents or countries, you can only get their connections here who pick up the money at local Wester Union locations.

I've yet to personally see a parrot scam locally but I'm sure I will soon, it seems to be the new way of ripping innocent people off.

"Dance like nobody's watching..."

 

[Tangie]

I have seen all kinds of scammer ads with Macaws that can ring a bell! So I always assume it is a scam when I see that, mo matter how well written a post is.

 

[gracebowen]

Hi. I sent you a pm but you didnt respond. Id like the macs please.

 

[Tobycyng]

How are you supposed to see through a scam?
I was thinking of rehoming a parrot but am getting rather frightened about being scammed.
Any particular traits about scams?
Thanks!

 

[Scott]

How are you supposed to see through a scam?
I was thinking of rehoming a parrot but am getting rather frightened about being scammed.
Any particular traits about scams?
Thanks!

Scams come in every possible style, ranging from "fertile parrot eggs" to magnificent birds being re-homed at zero or little cost. "If it looks/sounds too good to be true....."

 

[Kentuckienne]

I wrote a post about this, and others added more great information.
http://www.parrotforums.com/adoptions-re-homing/67706-how-identify-parrot-scam.html#post641038

In short:
A scammer doesn't have the parrot in question, so they have to scoop a photo and text from somewhere. Usually they just go on Google to find a picture, and sometimes they go to actual breeders/owners sites to scoop the text, so the description sounds right. When you see one of these posts, whether here or on craigslist or some other site, just do this:


1. Right click on the picture of the bird. From the pop-up box, select "search Google for this image". You'll get a page of similar photos. You can click one to see where it came from originally. If you don't see a match, it doesn't mean the add is legit - they could be using an old saved photo that isn't online any more.

2. Copy a chunk of the text and paste it into a search box. You might find the original post it was stolen from.

3. If you don't find any other examples of the photo or text, read the ad carefully. Look for spelling or grammar mistakes which could be a tip-off that the ad was written by a non-native speaker of English. Look for ads that don't give much detail - they don't say where the bird is located, or the price is either unusually low or free, or they don't even say what kind of parrot it is! Things like "tame green parrot", for example.

4. If you have any doubt at all, don't contact the person. If they aren't able to scam you into buying a parrot that doesn't exist, or into paying shipping charges for a parrot that doesn't exist, they might send you some malware in an email to infect your computer. Or they may save your contact information for a future scam. It's better to ask here if you have any difficulty figuring out a suspicious ad.