Vinted blocks French looters listing stolen goods for sale

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   Vinted blocks French looters listing stolen goods for sale

   BBC NewsPublished Oct 19, 2026Checked Oct 20, 2026

   “Vinted says it has removed listings of items believed to have been looted from shops during the ongoing riots in France . The second hand re-selling platform said following the weekend's disorder it had "taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to looting". Shops across several French cities were broken into and ransacked during the outbreak of riots over the weekend. "The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it," a spokesperson for the company said. Widespread looting was reported across Paris, Marseille and Lille, as well as other areas after protests against the cost of living and public spending turned into riots, leading to the arrests of at least 1,200 people. More than 2,000 businesses were directly impacted by the weekend's violence, according to the head of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI). Alain Di Crescenzo told France's broadcaster RTL that the riots led to hundreds of millions of euros worth of damage. Groups of rioters, some wearing masks and balaclavas, were seen setting fire to cars and buildings as well as looting businesses. Those that stole goods now appear to be looking to sell them on fast. "Since this weekend, our teams have taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to the looting, and we have stepped up monitoring of suspicious listings," Vinted told the BBC.”

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   A numeric-based machine learning design for detecting organized retail fraud in digital marketplaces.

   Scientific reports (Mutemi & Bacao)Published Aug 2, 2023Checked Oct 20, 2026

   “The issue of detecting fraud in general has been studied widely, especially in financial services, but studies focusing on organized retail crimes are extremely rare in literature. To contribute to the knowledge base in this area, we present a scalable machine learning strategy for detecting and isolating ORC listings on a prominent marketplace platform by merchants committing organized retail crimes or fraud. We employ a supervised learning approach to classify postings as fraudulent or real based on past data from buyer and seller behaviors and transactions on the platform. The proposed framework combines bespoke data preprocessing procedures, feature selection methods, and state-of-the-art class asymmetry resolution techniques to search for aligned classification algorithms capable of discriminating between fraudulent and legitimate listings in this context. Our best detection model obtains a recall score of 0.97 on the holdout set and 0.94 on the out-of-sample testing data set. We achieve these results based on a select set of 45 features out of 58.”

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   Vinted (Wikipedia)

   WikipediaChecked Oct 20, 2026

   “Vinted Group UAB (formerly Mano Drabužiai, meaning "my clothing") is a Lithuanian technology company best known for its online marketplace Vinted. Vinted is the leading second-hand fashion marketplace in Europe. According to the company, its mission is to 'make second-hand first choice worldwide'. The company operates the Vinted Marketplace (its peer-to-peer resale platform), Vinted Go (logistics and shipping services), Vinted Pay (in-app payment solutions), and Vinted Ventures (an investment arm supporting the circular economy). Headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, it also has offices in Germany and the Netherlands and employs more than 2,200 people.”