[swanseagerbils]

Hi all after nearly by had by one of these SCAMS here on gumtree I am not going to sand back and take it. I will be looking and reporting any further suspicious ads in future.

one comeing across a potential scam hee on gumtree I would suggest

1- report the ad to gumtree immediately ( you can do this by clicking the report ad button on the right hand side of the ad above the map.

2- contact your local police and report it them giving as much info as you can including any email address s used, conact numbers given , namesand which city you saw the ad on.

3- also take a look at neighbouring gumtree citys and if you see them on there to give this info to gumtree t when you report the ad to let them know the ad could be across the gumtree community.

4- ad most of all always try to post the scam here on the forum so other people are aware of it .

we wont s7stop these scams but we can certainly make more people aware of them and reduce the number of people scammed.


NEVER TRANSFER MONEY INTO SOMEONES ACCOUNT
ALWAYS TRADE FACE TO FACE IN YOUR LOCAL AREA, AND NEVER GO ALONE.
E CARFUL NOT TO GIVE OUT ANY INFOFRMATION ABOUT YOURSELF I SHOULD THINK AN EMAIL ADDRESS OR CONTACT NUMBER IS MORE THAN ENOUGH.


thanks for reading

steve

[Olly1973]

[StaffPuppYOwner]

Not everyone is internet savy though . Just by doing google searches you find plenty who have fallen for scams of various types on thezse types of sites worldwide .

The only ones i have no pitty for are the silly billys , i found 1 usa guy that had been hit by the pet scam 3 times , once you can maybe understand but 3 times ???

Also those that fall for the monkey scam seem foolish . They always seem to be people that have no experience of monkey care or handling monkeys , they also think the scammers claims of the monkey arriving from Cameroon in 9 hours is true , have people not heard of quarantine ?

I got my dog from a gumtree add , he did not arrive from Cameroon or Nigeria though lol .

[Olly1973]

[montyzuma]

ill have those parrots if you throw in 4 slice of bread and a portable barbeque

[swanseagerbils]

Olly , unfortunately NOT EVRYONE IS COMPUTER SAVVY and sites like gumtree SHOULD be trying to protect their customers. not EVERYONE IS a gumtree forum user and there fore are unaware of these scams.

All the above info I was advised to post by the police when they responded to my call. As I said the police are looking into these scam matters. And will be contacting gumtree about them.

Maybe gumtree would be better off with out the for sale sections, as this is where a lot of their bad feed back comes from.

OH AND I HOPE THAT ONE DAY YOU get scammed wheather it be by net letter or phone and then maybe you wont be so clever with your posts and sayin ppl who are not internet savvy , should not use the internet.

and another thing the amount of ppl who have emailed me about different scams on this site , is crazy .... seems that the majority of gumtree ads are scams... which says a lot about the site.

with many years of running now you would have thought they would have put something into practice, to at least reduce the number of scam ads.

maybe a good site for someone to setup would be gumtreescams.com

[StaffPuppYOwner]

Olly im willing to pay double of what ever Monty offers you .

Are the parrots potty trained ?

[montyzuma]

hi swansea

there are warnings all over the site
but you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink

given that gumtree was started as a free advertising site for the local community, if the for sale sections are shut down what is left?

where is all this bad feed back look over the last two weeks
how many people are reporting scams?

can you guess how many ads gumtree has every week
the proportion of bad eggs is very small

not a nice thing to hope someone gest scammed
there are only a few ways to do it and once you know them
the chances of getting scammed are minimal
read the help section
in my view you will never styop scammers but you can educate people how not to get scammed


why are people emailing you about scams?

someone already tried that, it fell on its butt why?
cos nobody read it
but feel free to start one

watchout for copyright infringement tho.
companies dont like that kind of thing

[Olly1973]

[StaffPuppYOwner]

[sinatra]

[doneover]

I met the guy face to face and viewed his property and then the sod done a bunk with my £600 deposit money and wont answer my calls or emails. Now having to take the thieving sod to court. Oh and gumtree are still allowing him to advertise despite me reporting the ad. Flamin Joke!!