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Australians have already lost over $288,000 to vehicle scams in the first quarter of this year, more than all losses reported to Scamwatch in 2019, and scammers have now begun impersonating defence personnel to con their victims, according to the consumer watchdog, the ACCC.

Australians have been warned to be careful when buying gifts this holiday season as losses to online shopping scams have already increased 42% this year as the country enters the busy Christmas-New Year period.

Online marketplace Gumtree has been given the green light by Australia’s competition regulator to acquire online automotive advertising classifieds services company Cox Media Solutions, allowing Gumtree Cars to be combined with Cox’s Carsguide and Autotrader sites.

Three RMIT students who launched an ‘Up-Cycle’ marketplace app dominated the recent RMIT Vonex Hackathon – with their innovation setting sights on tackling non-recyclable waste and “taking over” from Facebook marketplace and Gumtree why they say are not doing enough to tackle the waste problem.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has joined the European Commission and 24 other countries in a new global campaign focused on reducing the number of unsafe consumer products being sold online.

If you’ve ever looked at Gumtree overseas, you’d have noticed it had a different logo, and that new look and logo plus tech improvements have come to Australia at last.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has warned consumers against using cardless cash when purchasing products through Gumtree.

Setting itself up for the "next phase of growth," Gumtree Australia has appointed Roisin Parkes as its new chief technology officer.

Find-a-tradie service hipages has appointed Paolo Ragone as its first chief technical officer.

Forget ‘Waiting for Godot,’ your wait for Gumbot has ended for those who use Facebook Messenger and want a chatbot’s help to search, browse and access help in real time.

With the Samsung Note7 now officially recalled and banned from return by plane, why is eBay still allowing the Note7 to be sold?

Australians love the ebay-owned Gumtree site, which lets anyone buy or sell products online, but there’s been a hack with some personal info accessed.

Classified advertising website and community marketplace, Gumtree, is claiming a major milestone, reaching more than three million live listings and three million daily visits for the first time in the site’s history.

Gumtree says you’ll get $200 more for your phone just before a new mobile phone release based on historical trends, and listings jump. Will you sell yours?

Australia's many avid sports fans are being warned not to join the other 500,000 Australians who have been scammed by dodgy ticket resellers in the past 12 months.

Police are hunting a man who may have scammed hundreds of Gumtree uses since June last year.

While a record number of shoppers headed online for Christmas bargains this year, Australians are now left with over 16.7 million unwanted gifts that were received by disappointed friends and family, valued at over $500 million dollars.