Adoption Scams

This morning I noticed an article in the paper about two girls who were being adopted from another county. I thought it was going to be a cheery story of how these two girls were saved from a life of poverty, but instead I found a story about an adoption scam.

http://www.startribune.com/local/79730522.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU

From that story I found another about a lady that spent three years of her life and thousands of dollars on what she thought was a legitimate adoption process to find out that she was dealing with a baby broker.

http://www.startribune.com/local/63909282.html

This just goes to show that the scammers will use anything to get their money . . . even if that means playing with the life a child and the emotions of a couple that wants to be parents.

Mother Finds Her Baby Son Up for Adoption on Craigslist - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

Can you imagine finding your own child listed in an advertisement as being up for adoption? Well that is what happened to one mother recently.

Mother Finds Her Baby Son Up for Adoption on Craigslist - Local News News Articles National News US News - FOXNews.com

It turns out that some scammers used a photo of her child, that she posted on a family blog, and they created an advertisement with it. The scammers would then try to get the people answering the ad to send them money for the legal fees for the adoption of the child.

This is VERY similar to what scammers have been doing with Romance and Dating Scams for years. They will take the picture of an attractive person off of a website, sometimes a modeling site, and use that as the "decoy" to get people to try and connect with them.


Shawn Mosch
Co-Founder of ScamVictimsUnited.com
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