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Craft shop targeted by online scammers

A craft shop owner in Loughborough has told us her loyal customers stopped scammers targeting her business.

Emma Kilby runs 'Knotty Knits & Kreative Krafts' on Baxter Gate with her husband Andy.

The number of crimes on Facebook Marketplace has quadrupled in the last four years, according to Action Fraud.

Hayley Compton has been speaking to some of the people across the East Midlands being targeted by fraudsters on the site.

Meta, the company that run Facebook Marketplace, told the 大象传媒 that they have systems to block scams and they encourage people to report this content in a few simple clicks. The statement goes on to say that they have a trained team of reviewers and move quickly to remove content which violates the guidelines.

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