In short: Facebook Marketplace dominates reports of online buying scams and the problem appears to be getting worse. NAB reports of "buying and selling" scams increased 78 per cent in the final ...

Adam Donovan says he was not expecting to be targeted by six scammers within a few hours as he tried to sell an old couch on Facebook Marketplace. Adam Donovan noticed an increase in scam accounts ...

SEATTLE — It was a stark reminder of a potential danger of online marketplaces: an off-duty police officer from New York was shot and killed during an attempted robbery arranged over Facebook ...

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Danielle Pickett, from Oldham, described how she opened her front door to a man who convinced her he had transferred her £400 for the phone but when the money failed to appear, the threats started ...

A judge issued a warrant for a man who tried to sell someone else’s tractor on Facebook Marketplace, said the Hamblen County ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As holiday shoppers hunt for the best deals online, a new study shows how scammers are trying to take advantage of them. An analysis by Been Verified of more than 165,000 complaints ...

When Facebook launched Marketplace last fall, it had envisioned itself as a hybrid between eBay, Amazon, and Craigslist. Checking in on Marketplace months later, I’d like to argue that that assessment ...

Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents ...