A parrot with the body of a bird and the head of a lion, with its beak open as if shouting, with text overlay saying 'Your argument is invalid because I am louder.'

!SCAM WARNING ON SITE! -Another one to roll your eyes at! Another scammer spamming comments on this page, directing you to a parrot for sale website. Very professional looking page as well, but full of the same warning indicators that just scream scam. I will include a link to the website just for fun at the bottom of this post, take a look and have a good laugh. Here are some things to watch out for when looking for a birdie online and this scam has them all...

1. The person writing the comments that give you the site looks in any way fake, in this case it is a new facebook page with all the profile updates and pictures and such created in the past couple of days, or over a very short period of time

2. Parrot eggs for sale. No breeder is going to sell eggs for cheap when they could hatch them themselves. The eggs in the website pictures are clearly fake, they are plastic eggs with little holes in the bottoms. Parrot eggs cannot be shipped in any case, even if they were real they would die in the shell during the lowered temperatures and constant jostling of shipment. Proper incubation of an eggs also requires costly equipment and much experience, and handfeeding hatchlings requires round the clock handfeedings every 2 hours at minimum, special foods and even more experience.

3. Bird selection. Sites like these always have birds available that you can buy now, even species that you cannot find anywhere else for love nor money. Endangered species, ultra rare species, those requiring extensive knowledge and facilities and even ones completely illegal to own. No real breeder anywhere in the world would have a selection like this, not without a major government funded facility with an entire cadre of specialists.

4. Prices! This is the biggest indicator, this site has impossible to find birds that, when they are available somewhere, sell for 50,000 or more and these guys list them for 700. Oh my, I'll take 20! Biggest mistake is then listing budgies for 350-1600.

There are many other indicators, and these sites are very common nowadays, using viral marketing to try to lure people in. I have seen these for birds, puppies, kittens, all animals basically. Porn, dating, erectile disfunction, medicine, health, many seem to use a Denver USA area code as a proxy phone number, but it all goes overseas.

Here is a link to the site, have a look and a good laugh, and let anyone who you think might be at risk know about these scammers. It appears to be safe as far as viruses go, passed the scans, just don't add anything to a cart or give any information and make sure to close the tab in your browser afterwards. Not much harm in looking with all the safeguards of a modern browser. -edit, site taken down after a few days.

Let me know if anyone gets a safesite warning or anything. Stay safe everyone!