Bosque Animal Rescue Kennels (BARK) is trying to alert people after their website was hacked and scammers started posting pictures of purebred puppies available for adoption. If people were interested, they would fill out an adoption application with their personal information, but that information went not to the rescue center, but to the scammers, as would any donations made.
KCENTV investigated and found that the same photos of purebred puppies were being used on shelter sites in a number of states, so this scam operation is bigger than we might think.
Stay alert. As someone who encourages people to adopt from shelters, seeing shelters abused this way by scammers is infuriating. Hopefully, they will be caught, prosecuted, and put in cages themselves.