**WARNING**
ROBOT TOY SCAM

Hi.

PLEASE READ
I am Shane from Teddybots® Ireland and I wanted to make this warning about a scam on the internet selling a fake, realistic, robot dog toy. This is a scam. There are no realistic robot dogs.
This technology is not available.

This scam was running from in December 2020 on Facebook ads. We have noticed that a lot of the ads were seen in Spain, Italy and France.

The Facebook advertisements included a video of a person interacting with a real dog that is advertised as a robot dog toy. This was not a realistic robot. This a scam and are shipping a cheap stuffed toy. These pages were running on number of websites across Europe.

We do not sell these toys but if you bought one of these dogs please read below. We are getting a lot of emails and I want to share information that I have found. Thank you.

REPORTED:

I noticed this scam on Facebook in December and reported it straight away.
(19th December). 

There were a number of pages on Facebook using this business name.
I continued to report the pages through December and January.
The fake pages were taken down on the 8th of January.
I do not know if Facebook took them down or if scammers deleted the pages.

The following links are websites we found that were linked to the Facebook ads.
SCAM WEBSITE
https://fr-teddybot.com/
https://teddy-bot.com/
Es-teddybot.com

I also found that these websites are registered to a domain in Canada.

Website – https://lookup.icann.org/lookup
Type and search : – fr-teddybot.com

You will see:
• Registry Expiration:2021-12-04 16:25:12 UTC Created:2020-12-04 16:25:12 UTC

Update: 15th 01 2021

We have found a number of other pages linked to this scam. Please be very careful when buying toys with electronics.
The following images are screen grabs from website pages that we have found. We have also included screen grabs of Facebook adverts that have continued to promote ‘A realistic dog’. We have reported these adverts but Facebook have still not replied to our original complaints.
The following text is from an email to Facebook. (December 20th 2020)
The following images are screen grabs from Facebook advertising that was running on the weekend of the 15th – 18th of Jan 2021.
We can see the same process of using multiple pages linking to external websites.
The pages above are links from these face book advertisements.

December 19th
I reported adverts, pages and groups running this scam to Facebook in December.
This report was made under Trademark and Copyright Infringement for ‘Teddybots’.
I (Shane Sutton) own the trade mark for Europe and the USA.

Facebook complaint reference number:#203 553 604 645 605

The complaint was made under intellectual property, Trademark infringement and copyright.
If you are contacting Facebook to complain about any of the ads or pages please feel free to use this number as a reference number and complaint on these fraudulent ads. This complaint waas made on the 19th of December 2020.

Facebook reply 23rd December 2020:

Hello,

Thank you for your report. Based on the information that you have provided, it is not clear to us that the content that you have reported infringes your trademark rights. The trademark that you are claiming appears to be different from the reported content.

For this reason, it does not appear that the reported content is likely to confuse people as to the source, sponsorship or affiliation of the goods and services, and we are unable to act on your report at this time.

Thank you,

Intellectual Property Operations
Facebook

Facebook advertising on the 15th – 18th of January 2021.

Please note the varouis page / group names that are sponsoring the advertising.
They also continue to use a real dog in the adverts for a stuffed toy. These images are screen grabs of the videos. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. We are sorry you have had this expereince. Please feel free to contact me via our contact page if you have any questions. I’m more then happy to help if we can.

Thank you

Shane.
Teddybots (Official).