A number of defrauded tenants have contacted the NLA about a new wave of scams on the online classifieds website, Gumtree. Unsuspecting potential tenants, usually from overseas, reply to ...

Savannah thought she had taken all the right steps to protect herself while selling items on Facebook Marketplace — but that ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In the UK, the Office of Fair Trading estimated that in 2006, 3.2 million adults fell prey to mass ...

UK households are being warned over rental fraud as Facebook and Gumtree scams target desperate tenants. Posing as a landlord, fraudsters post adverts for affordable properties to lure victims into ...

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A MOTHER and son were under the dominance and control of another when they helped him carry out a Gumtree scam totalling nearly $80,000. Their involvement has landed them in the Cairns District Court ...

Do you fancy an Irish gelding for £3,500? Or a goldfish for £1? Or meeting up with a 'Jaffa Cake tester' from Lancashire who is looking for love? Or an occultist from Surrey who is anxious to meet up ...

Last week, a 21-year-old Brisbane women posted an ad on Gumtree, looking for two iPhones. Rather quickly, another woman contacted her, saying she had two iPhones for sale. They agreed to meet at a ...