03/13/2026
Pet Sitters BEWARE!
My banking experience and my spidey senses are at work after responding to a request that is scammy! Stick to your professionalism & policies, your pricing, procedures and your intuition.
Watch out for pet care requests that have red flags like these below:
🚩RED FLAGS:
🚩Requesting on social platforms but don’t want to call/talk; only email.
🚩Name on profile doesn’t match name in email response they sent.
🚩Email address is “suspicious”.
🚩Situation described tugs on your compassion and seems urgent but seems “off”.
🚩Requests more personal information about YOU than necessary.
🚩Tries to entice you with large sums of money upfront as pay and/or to purchase items for pet without ever meeting them or pet, yet.
🚩Relocating/ pet being shipped to address ahead of them & wants you to care for the pet.
🚩Wants a pet pro but not utilizing professional processes you have in place.
🚩Asks questions you’ve already answered or are available on your website to view, as directed.