o View properties in person. Adswale.in is a local community site and we encourage face-to-face, local, trading. People willing to rent a property without seeing it/ or the prospective tenant first, even if they claim that it is because they are currently overseas, are unlikely to be legitimate. For personal ease and safety, always ensure you take someone with you, or if you are inviting someone into your home ask to see personal identification first.

o Never send or wire money to landlords. This includes never mailing a cheque or using payment services like Bidpay, Western Union or Money Gram to pay for items found on Adswale.in. It is our belief that these forms of funds transfer are favoured by fraudsters.

o Adswale.in doesn’t offer any sort of buyer protection/ payment programs. Any emails that talk about such systems are scams, even if they may have the Adswale.in logo. If you receive any emails promoting these services, please inform us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com

o Never provide your personal or banking information (e.g. credit card number) to others over the Internet.

o Make yourself aware of common scams and fraud - see our Scam Watch section. Do not believe the promise of large sums of money for your help in any task.

o Please report to us if any attempted fraud or suspicious emails, ads, or other activity by community members. In case of fraud, we also recommend that you report it to the Police.

o Use common sense. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

For all personal encounters with people you are not familiar with, we stress that you MUST TAKE CARE! Here are our top tips for staying safe:

• If you do decide to meet someone through Adswale.in, for your own personal peace of mind and safety, we suggest that you meet in a very public place and if possible take someone along with you when you first meet the person. If you do not have a friend with you, then ensure that you tell someone exactly what you are doing, where you are going, when you are expected back, and give contact numbers, etc.
• Once at your rendezvous, if you feel at all uncomfortable with the situation, then we suggest you politely excuse yourself and leave. Do not feel obliged at any time during the encounter to do anything you are uncomfortable with.
• The friends/dating/casual categories are designed for individual people to meet others at a level that they are comfortable with. We promote safe practices and strongly advise people to use common sense and express due caution in every situation.
  

There are some dodgy people out there, and despite our efforts to keep them from Adswale.in and protect you, occasionally a bogus ad or buyer slips through. Read here for some common scams on the net to watch out for.

• Brand name spoofing/phishing: You get an email that claims to be from Adswale.in, eBay, Western Union, or another company and offers buyer protection or an online payment system or perhaps a cash prize. These emails will typically request that you send money or provide personal information. Any emails which combine urgency with some need for personal details should be treated with caution, no matter whom they purport to be from. Adswale.in and most other companies will never send out such emails. If you send money via these sites you are likely sending money to the fraudsters.

If you receive an email alleging to be from a company offering a service then go directly to the company’s official website and look for details of the service.

• Cheque overpayment: A buyer or seller or prospective tenant will send you a cheque worth more than the value of the items/ rent and then ask for the surplus money to be returned to them or a third party, for example “to pay for shipping”. The cheque will clear into your bank, only to be stopped/refused weeks later. At this point, the Banks/Building Societies will take the full cheque amount back out of your account. Not only will you have lost the goods, you will be out of pocket for the amount of the cheque and the amount you passed on as the difference.

• Payment for brokerage/importing: A seller claims that there are brokerage fees, import duties, or other such fees required to get an item into the country. Do not pay such fees, as you will most often never get the product and will have lost any money you paid. Again, Adswale.in is designed for local, face to face trading.

• Fake escrow sites: A buyer or seller or prospective tenant/ landlord suggests using an escrow service to complete the transaction. Often these escrow web sites are run by fraudsters (even though they may look "official") and they will take your money and never send you the product.

• Work from home: Many work from home offers are "pyramid schemes" which require you to recruit other members in order to get paid. For example, an ad may say that you can make 100 an hour by stuffing envelopes. But to make that money, you need to sell the system to others. Other work from home opportunities are fronts for money laundering - key warning sign should be any 'job' that involves you receiving cheques and cashing them. For these reasons we typically don't accept work from home positions on Adswale.in.

Please inform us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com so that we can immediately remove the ad from our listings. However please note Adswale.in does not take responsibility for any such scams based on your dealings with anyone posting a classified on our site.

There are many different types of email scams that exist. You should show caution in all instances, especially with people who;

* Are overseas (remember Adswale.in is a local community site)
* Request payment via Western Union (or other online payment methods)
* Request that you send goods before you receive payment
* Claim to have a friend/agent who can pay you an amount greater than the value of your goods, then ask you to send them the difference.

Here are two examples of fraudulent emails:


See Scam Watch for more details of what to look for.

Report suspicious emails to us to info[at]Adswale[dot]com

We don’t tolerate harassment or abuse of our Adswale.in users and take reports of this nature very seriously. If you have experienced abuse or harassment in connection to either an ad on Adswale.in or an email received from a Adswale.in user then please email us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com

If you have received an abusive email you might also want to forward the details of the abusive email to the sender's email account provider (i.e., Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL).

There could be several common reasons for this, including simply human error. This occasionally happens when a poster mis-types a phone number/email address in their ad. This occurs mostly in newspapers when posters mis-quote their phone numbers when placing classified ads over the telephone and sometimes happens on the internet too.

Please inform us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com and we will remove it immediately.

There could be several reasons for this, including simply human error. This occasionally happens when a poster mis-types a phone number/email address in their ad. This occurs mostly in newspapers when posters mis-quote their phone numbers when placing classified ads over the telephone and sometimes happens on the internet too.

Please inform us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com and we will remove it immediately.

Somebody else has keyed in one of your posting reference numbers to request the password to your ad. They may have done this accidentally, so do not worry. We’d only email the password to the contact given in the ad – no one else.

While posting a classified on Adswale.in we suggest you to avoid giving out your email address and let user contact you using the online contact form.

If you have received a spam email in connection to your ad on Adswale.in then please inform us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com so that we can try and stop these people from emailing Adswale.in users again.

Reporting to us any suspicious activity, spam or abuse helps us keep Adswale.in safe.

To report an ad, you can either
* Use the "Report abuse " link that can be found in the top right-hand corner of every ad.
Or
To report a suspicious email in connection to your ad on Adswale.in then please report it to us at info[at]Adswale[dot]com