Dog owner targeted by vile scammers who threatened to shoot his missing pet if he refused to pay
Nathan Swalwell, of Orrell, received a call from a private number, after his timid nine-year-old Shih Tzu cross Lexi vanished just before Christmas. Nathan said: “‘He told me, ‘I’ve got Lexi. Give us 500 quid or I’ll shoot it’.
"He wasn’t telling the truth and I didn’t see the money again. But when you’re desperate, you’ll do anything.” Holly Thackeray, 31, told the Mirror how she was conned after her American Bulldog Chapo escaped from her garden. The mum-of-two, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, said: “I searched for him for days and put ads on social media. Then I got a call from a man who said he had Chapo.
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