How to Identify Specialized Breeding Scams? Master These Methods to Avoid Being Fooled

In recent years, many farmer friends who dreamed of making a fortune and entrepreneurs who struggled to find business startup projects have fallen for specialized breeding scams. Currently, various promotional advertisements for specialized breeding are everywhere, and many scams are hidden among them. Moreover, with the media now more developed, people are constantly being scammed almost every day. Let us take a look below at how to identify specialized breeding scams!

Common Tricks of Specialized Breeding Scams

1. Good returns: Specialized breeding uses low investment and high profit to catch people's attention. These breeding projects almost all claim to be "highly profitable with little capital," and that anyone who raises them will make money. In reality, these claims are exaggerated.

2. Fake credentials: Some specialized breeding companies present themselves externally as some scientific research company, some specialized breeding center, listed in the National Spark Program, and other gimmicks to attract attention and trust.

3. Strong backing: Some specialized breeding companies boast of strong backing. These scammers rent a room in some science and technology institution, using the signboard of these famous schools as a cover, and under the name of famous schools, they deceive others' trust.

4. Fake guarantees: They claim the company's breeding project has insurance company liability guarantee and even legal notarization, but once you pay the money, they will definitely take your money and run.

5. Guaranteed technology: Many specialized breeding advertisements claim no diploma requirements, no regional restrictions, no breeding experience needed to learn, and the company provides technical services. In reality, specialized breeding still depends on region, season, climate, and other conditions.

6. Hired shills: Some specialized breeding advertisements often post pictures, and some signed commenters express thanks to a certain company's certain project for making them rich. The purpose is to let people know that specialized breeding is quite profitable and to make it easier for people to believe.

What are the specialized breeding scams?

1. Scorpions: Selling breeding stock at high prices and buying back finished products is the most common scorpion breeding scam. In fact, raising scorpions can be profitable, but it is best to understand the market and grasp the market so that you will not buy poor-quality scorpion seedlings at high prices while being unable to sell the finished scorpions.

2. Ground beetles (Eupolyphaga sinensis): Ground beetle breeding is mostly speculation in the market. In reality, ground beetle breeding, like other breeding industries, requires forward-looking vision. As for the many advertisements claiming that raising ground beetles is guaranteed to make money, this needs to be judged with your own eyes.

3. Black guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus): They hype the extremely high medicinal and health value of black guinea pigs, enjoying the reputation of "black diamond" and "black beauty." In reality, this is just "speculating on breeding stock." The so-called "speculating on breeding stock" phenomenon means buying them back at low prices and selling them as breeding stock at more than 3 times the commercial market price.

5. Diving beetles: Diving beetle breeding, as a project itself, is indeed a good rural entrepreneurship project. However, many companies are themselves aimed at swindling money, have no related technology or breeding stock at all, and purely make money by speculating on breeding stock.

6. Centipedes: Centipede breeding is basically similar to ground beetle breeding, also dominated by breeding stock speculators, with the breeding volume far exceeding market demand. Although it is slightly better than ground beetle breeding, most breeders still find it hard to make money.

7. Toads: Breeding stock speculators sell seedlings at high prices, while breeders cannot find sales channels. At the same time, the medicinal value of toad skin itself remains to be verified, and demand is not large. Meanwhile, there are quite a lot of wild toads, so the market is currently unclear.

How should breeding scams be identified?

1. All specialized breeding scams share one common point: misleading concepts and theories. The main arguments and evidence are "things are precious when rare," "products entering high-end markets fetch good prices," and so on. Misleading concepts and theories are the first step in almost all scams.

2. Media placement is an essential method for scammers. They place advertisements in all media such as the internet, magazines, newspapers, television, and DM, or even falsely claim that these media have published advertisements. Therefore, do not easily trust media advertisements for get-rich projects.

3. Putting on a two-man act is the most commonly used method by scammers. When investigators inspect the breeding farm, they arrange for their own people to keep calling to "ask for goods" or "come in person" to place orders, and often "quote high prices." This way, they can fool most investigators.

4. Some scammers play the trick of borrowing a stage to put on a show. These scammers are not even bare-handed tricksters; they have no breeding farm of their own at all and rent someone else's breeding farm to fool investigators. This trick is usually aimed at swindling technical training consultation fees and seedling fees.

5. Many specialized breeding scammers play the trick of guaranteed buyback. In essence, it is merely a gimmick for scammers to sell seedlings at high prices. After the seedlings are sold, the people cannot be found. Even if you find them, they refuse to buy back under various pretexts.

6. Some scammers create false impressions and play on the concept of scarcity. Taking advantage of information asymmetry among farmers and other groups, they pass off non-scarce varieties as scarce varieties and sell seedlings to farmers and others at high prices. Some scammers also pass off inferior breeds as superior breeds and sell them to breeders.

7. Some scammers are even more direct in committing fraud. They sell fake seedlings to breeders. Some scammers exploit breeders' ignorance of subspecies differences to commit fraud. Some scammers use artificial means to dress up and counterfeit seedlings. Others use drugs to fatten up conventional species.