It's the first time Gumtree have blocked scammers in 14 years of scammers messaging me.
I read somewhere that Fake sellers account for around 70% of used car sales scams.
These days you shouldn't list your number plate number and you need to blur the number plate in images when selling a vehicle online because of people who clone the rego number with 3D printers and then use your plate number to commit crimes.
I sold an unregistered car on car sales in 2009 and put some old number plates on the car just to drive the car to the end of my street to take the images, then I blurred the number plate numbers before uploading the images to car sales but they wouldn't allow the images and the advert until I showed the number plates in the images so I had to upload the original images showing the plates that weren't even from the car I was selling ,then they allowed the ad, funny how now it's the opposite and they don't show the plates.
The government is meant to be stopping scammers this year.
