Giant Maine Coon Kittens

Victim Location 02852

Total money lost $900

Type of a scam Online Purchase

Scammer has a website www.giantmainekittens.com where he is posing as a breeder of Maine [censored] kittens named Jacob Hosner. I filled out an inquiry form on the website about a specific kitten and scammer contacted me via text about purchasing the kitten. He asked me to make a payment via Zelle for $900 which unfortunately I did since the website was very detailed and seemed legimate. After payment his subsequent responses made me suspicious that I had been scammed. I did a reverse image search on Google of the picture of the kitten I supposedly purchased and found the same picture on a Russian website showing that the kitten had been born in 2018. The two websites with the identical kitten photos are www.giantmainekittens.com and http://meinkun.ru/pometP.html, I also had a friend pose as an interested buyer for the same kitten and he responded from the same cell number (213) 318-3352 via text offering to sell the same kitten I had already purchased.