The Scam Filter – Bigger & Better
Scammers be Gone!
Over the last weeks we have seen a few scams on DoneDeal. Mostly cars advertised for a fraction of the normal price, but also some motorbikes, and a horse.
Before you get worried, please be assured that most ads on DoneDeal have always been genuine, thanks to our clever Scam Filter. It stops most scams before they even get on to DoneDeal.
For example, over the last month there was 24 scam ads, out of over 10,000 genuine ads. That is a mere 0.2%!
The scam ads were removed within days, or even within hours, and every person who contacted the scammer received an email from us warning them about the scam. Also, it is easy to protect yourself from scams by following the advice in our Security Centre.
Anyway, personally I hate scammers, and even 0.2% is too much for our high standards. These eeeediots try to steal hard earned money from nice people, and we have no time for these scum bags.
Therefore I have updated the DoneDeal Scam Filter over the weekend. It is now even cleverer. In fact, I dare say it is by far the cleverest filter in Ireland. For security reasons I cannot tell you exactly how it works, but it is good stuff!
The new Scam Filter means our system automatically removes scam ads, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. It never sleeps!
The new Scam Filter goes live on DoneDeal tomorrow (Monday). So next week the scammers better get themselves a decent job, or at least go hassle some other web site instead.
I was told of your site approx.a week ago and have not stopped looking at it since.
At first I was not impressed but I found out it was all of my own making,just like everything else in life you have to learn and I did and now it’s the best site on the internet and was badly needed, I also voted for you today.
I have one big worry that you will sell out to the likes of ebay as you must be hurting them big time in Ireland, I did use ebay for a time but not since Christmas because it’s very hard to do what you want with all the pop up’s,passwords,changing this that and the other every time you enter the site etc and all the other distractions as well.
People just want to do or get what they want and not to be wasting their time on useless info,leave the monkey stuff to the yankee doodles Irish people like things plain and simple and to the point.
You have a great and wonderful site that’s very easy to navagate and use( it’s very user friendly) so keep up the good work and don’t ever LOOSE or forget where and how you got this site up and going, give the people what they want, and you won’t go far wrong.
Thanks for listening Mike Mullins (The Sham) Tuam slang not the Scam ha ha. Wish you all every SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE.and keep up the GOOD WORK.