Gumtree Mobile App Download
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The eBay-owned classified listings platform Gumtree has launched a new iPad app today in line with its redesigned, responsive desktop site as it revamps its mobile strategy to keep up with competitors.
The app has a similar design as the main Gumtree website, but with a more mobile-friendly layout. Once you create an account, it also has additional features such as the ability to verify your profile.
If you really want to up your game you can link to a YouTube video and give people a 360-degree view of the item. This is a great tip for selling electronics like mobile phones or computers so the buyer can see how it runs before they decide to buy.
We are thrilled to introduce our latest app update featuring mobile number verification, ensuring a more secure and trustworthy experience. By verifying your email, mobile number, and ID, you'll receive a "Verified Identity" badge.
Post in minutes: Time is money! Sell your unwanted goods in no time with our easy-to-use classifieds platform. Upload ads, add photos, write detailed instructions from your mobile device - it's that simple!
We're always looking for ways to further improve our app and your browsing experience. Rate the app and get in touch with us:
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10 min ago I received an sms and email with the exact same story but with a different name, from someone working in the mining in NT asking for my PP or BSB as I want to sell a suitcase in gumtree. Then I doubt if someone can scam you with these numbers so I browsed and I found this page
Oh dear I am afraid I have been scammed well I definitely have. I am selling a ute on gumtree I was contacted via email and offered asking price and an extra $300 to take the add down, Daniel Jonothab asked for my bsb and account details which I stupidly gave. I was then told funds would be transferred but I needed to pay a courier $950 first I started to cotton on at this point and told him this is too werid and too much fuss for an old ute. What do I need to do as i jave given out my bank details....help
Hi all,
The above responses are invaluable to me. I received same messages as 2 of above within minutes of posting my car on gumtree for sale. Both responses were from persons working offshore with no phone facility but wanting my email address and then wanting further information from me (which I supplied by email) and then requesting I consider my vehicle sold that without inspection, couriers were coming to collect it, they'd paid $300 for
me to take my ad down immediately, and asking for ymy full name BSP and account number and where did I live (address not emailed but suburb and city was provided). I smelt a rat, slowly I'll admit but mainly as I thought it unusual to get pretty much the same story (of being offshore and not having a phone) from two different people within minutes of ad posted and further one of the people first said he was Mark and in a later email his address was James.
To answer Renata's question I think if a person has your full name, your email address, your phone number, and your bank bsb and account number, they can steal your identity or set up an account pretending that they are you and then make withdrawals from your own bank account into the fraudulent thank account- If gumtree is taking no action I suggest reporting it to the police and maybe that they can trace the email addresses back to the source- if I have the energy and financial resources to do so . Thank you everyone.
Cathy
I've just been through similar thing several times regarding a gold necklace I had for sale on gumtree. Each one said working offshore/OVERSEAS could I post it to them. Agreed to do so then they supposedly sent funds through PayPal but they never arrived although I would receive a confirmation email SUPPOSEDLY from PayPal asking me to provide shipment tracking number and then my funds would be released. Luckily it set of alarm bells and I rang PayPal who assured me that it's fake and they Never ask for items to be shipped before payment.
Reading all the above I've realized scammers must have created some sort of tracking code on gumtree to alert them of new postings over a certain $ amount. (Or they have people whose job is to just watch gumtree all day? Also not sure if this is correct - the scammer sends you an automated text message to contact them via email, purportedly from Gumtree.
Here's what happened to me: I listed my car - approximately 40mins after, I received a text mesaaage from +61 451 266 432 stating: "From GUMTREE: Davido emailed us regarding your listed vehicle, is it still up for sale? reply him directly via ([email protected]) now". I thought it was weird they were asking if it was still up for sale because I had just listed it. (Of course it is, I just posted my ad?) Anyway I ignored the niggling feeling because I was a bit excited I had a potential buyer so quickly. I also ignored the bad grammar in the text (missing 'to'). I then emailed and got a reply approx. 20mins after stating the below. Gullible me eagerly started typing a reply, but then I thought, hold up, stop rushing, their story just doesn't sound right. So I googled the dangers of giving bank account details and came across this article - thank you :).
Here are the silly questions popping up in my head - I thought how can your daughter be graduating, you must have been about 14, or 15 when you had her (sorry to generalize - many people use the last two digits of their birth in their email ID, and I thought born in 1987 and has a daughter already graduating? That can't be right - or it can just very uncommon). Why would you pay $300 for me to take down the listing? Why are you providing so much information about your situation?? (e.g. So, we nurses perform with significant autonomy, and make medical decisions when necessary) I don't need to know this. Why have you already talked to freighters for pick up nd delivery so quickly before you have even contacted me for more info??? Why aren't you writing in coherent sentences?????! Lol anyway here is his reply to my intial email.
"Am Glad to read back from you because I would have loved to call you directly but due to the nature of my work we do not have access to phone at the moment,which is why I contact only contact you via email. I work with as an onshore nurse here in Australia and provides around-the-clock medical and emergency care for illnesses and injuries sustained by members of the oil rig crew. Most rigs do not have doctors on board. So, we nurses perform with significant autonomy, and make medical decisions when necessary. I want it to be the perfect graduation gift for my daughter and am making it a surprise package as well for her, Are you the real first owner? and why are you selling it if you don't mind my asking. I don't mind adding an extra $300.00 for you just to take down the posting..I am already in talks with freighters that will handle the pickup and delivery .I will really appreciate if you can email more info. Due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day, i don't have access to my bank account online as am not with my credit card details here but i have my National Australia bank account link up with my PayPal account so I will be paying you through PayPal to your nominated bank account or better still is if you have a PayPal account,please get back to me with your BSB and account details or PayPal account so i can proceed with the payment and contact the courier agent who will come to pick it up and deliver it in Australia Capital Territory for my Daughter"
This just happened to me!!
Below is the email transcript I received with a couple of minutes of posting the Ad on gumtree:
"Thanks a lot for the email. I am away at sea at the moment,i work with New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) and we are presently offshore in New Zealand Taranaki Basin on kapo project. We do not have access to phone at the moment,its 5days off and 25days on,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility. Where is it located at the moment?
Adding that It seems the scammers are clueless about geography Darwin is not close at all to be cost effective delivery from any city. And i dont believe there are any PayPal fees for what would be personal transfers, and with all the repeated phrases about payment via PayPal (counted "PayPal" 7 times in one email) a real person wouldn't need lengthy and repetitive sob stories explaining further sob stories to buy a simple secondhand bed or car or old dog blanket from gumtree. Obviously its clear those are scam emails and steer clear, but if its not obvious to you, and the emails are rather pointlessly lengthy and focus more bout PayPal payment than the actual item, ask a friend, report or ignore. Err on the side of caution.
A person working remotely on an open ocean oil rig or defence job would have a very high paying job and wont bother with 2nd hand gumtree stuff. Moreover if someone is prepared to pay extra for the item and more for shipping halfway across the country for a 2nd hand item, then show me the money first in my separate safe account before I even dust it off. Obviously any regular person would just buy it new from the retailer and have it shipped.
"in talks with freight company to discuss pick up" - someone with that kind of money to waste and time to waste buying a $50 old bed from gumtree, pay for it to be sent halfway across the country would not be in "talks with freight company". It is one phone call: hi I want this thing picked up from here and delivered here.
seriously if u had 1000$ to spend on something would u buy it over price from gumtree in another country and have it sent to another city where u aren't without so much as inspecting the item? No. It makes more sense to source the thing locally or even just new from online shop.
Same through happened to me... selling a car... got 4! of these types of emails. And was curious why they wanted my email address outside of gumtree messaging ... of course now I realise why... and why they wanted my paypal account details.
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