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Calls for more regulation as Aussies lose millions to Facebook Marketplace scams
Australian Community Media
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9/8/2023
There are calls for governments to mandate tech companies add fraud preventative measures on online buying and selling platforms like Facebook Marketplace as users are scammed in the millions.
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With Facebook, they've scaled the product first,
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and the security and the safety measures just
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haven't caught up.
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They're dealing with multinational companies
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with billions of users, and the experience
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they've told us is they're hitting a brick wall.
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