Gumtree is hit by 250 fraud claims a week: Consumers warned criminals are using the s

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Criminals are using the online small ads site Gumtree, which allows people to sell everything from cars to mobile phones and even pets, to steal millions of pounds from innocent consumers.Citizens Advice is issuing a warning today after revealing that one in six of the consumer problems it has investigated associated with Gumtree was a […]

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Notes to editors:

1. Citizens Advice analysed problems reported to the consumer service by consumers in England, Scotland and Wales from 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2014 about products or services bought through Gumtree or eBay. One in six of the 649 Gumtree cases was a scam or potential scam (108 cases) and one in ten of the 3711 eBay cases was a scam or a potential scam (386 cases).
2. A separate analysis of 50 cases reported to Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales between February 2011 and January 2014 was about problems with logbook loans. In cases where a car had been bought online and the buyer had not known that a logbook loan was attached, six of them had been bought through eBay and in one instance via Gumtree.