Where are my contact details kept?

Against your account, in a vault, not inside the ad. Only the channels you switch on in settings are copied onto an ad, and switching one off takes it back off. Your legal name, exact address and alternate number are for advisors verifying you and are never published.

How does Adzmonster deal with scams?

Phone numbers, emails and handles are stripped from ad text before it goes public. Known scam patterns such as too-good-to-be-true pricing, courier-fee stories and advance-payment hooks are flagged in the review queue, and a person reads every ad before it goes up. Reviews reduce the volume; they do not remove the need to inspect before you pay.

What should I do when meeting a seller or buyer?

Meet in a public, busy place in daylight, inspect before you pay, never pay in advance, keep your own record of the conversation, and for vehicles and property verify ownership documents independently. An advisor review is a screen, not a title search.

Trust & safety

An honest market is a built thing

Classifieds have a reputation problem for a reason: anonymous ads, leaked numbers, advance-fee scams. Adzmonster is engineered against each one — and this page writes the promises down so you can hold us to them.

every ad reviewed by a human advisoryour contact lives in a vault

The vault

What never rides on an ad

Your ad and your contact details are stored apart, by architecture — not by policy alone. The ad carries the item; everything below lives in your vault, and reaches an ad only when you switch that channel on yourself.

Anything you did not tick
Your contact details sit against your account, not in the ad. Only the channels you switch on in settings are copied onto an ad, and switching one off takes it back off.
Your legal name
Ads carry the display name you chose. Your full name is for our advisors verifying you, and goes no further.
Your exact address
Ads carry a city and area, not a doorstep. Where to meet is yours to decide, every time.
Your alternate number
Kept so an advisor can reach you if the main one fails. Never published, whatever else you switch on.

Your contact details

You publish it, or nobody sees it

Buyers contact sellers directly here — so an ad has to carry a way to reach you. What it carries is entirely your choice, it costs a buyer nothing to use, and we are not in the conversation that follows.

You decide what appears

Nothing is published by default. Phone, WhatsApp and email are three separate switches, and an ad shows only what you switched on.

Every ad was paid for and read

A person reviews each ad before it goes up, and the seller paid to put it there. Neither stops every bad actor, but together they stop the volume — which is what makes a board worth reading.

You can take it back

Switch a channel off and it comes off your ads the next time each is saved. What you published is a choice you can reverse, not a sale you made of yourself.

nothing published by default · three separate switches · untick and it comes off

Human review

Every ad is read twice

Nothing goes live unread. First an AI reviewer screens every submission — and every edit — against the prohibited list, known scam patterns and content that does not belong on a general-audience board. Then a human advisor reads it and makes the call: the AI advises, a person decides, and neither step can be skipped or bought.

The advisor mark on a seller means our team reviewed them in conversation. It is never sold, and a boost can't buy it.

Scam scrubbing

Built against the classics

Contact details are scrubbed
Phone numbers, emails and handles are stripped from ad text before it goes public — the classic “WhatsApp me directly” lure never makes it to the board.
Known scam patterns are flagged
Too-good-to-be-true pricing, courier-fee stories, advance-payment hooks, off-platform payment links — advisors are trained on the catalogue and the review queue surfaces it.
Promo can’t fake trust
Boosts buy visibility, never verification. The advisor mark cannot be bought, and a promoted scam is still a removed scam.

The handover

Meet safe, pay last

The platform can vet the ad; the handover is yours. Six rules that cover almost every bad story we've ever heard.

Meet in a public, busy place — metro stations, bank lobbies, mall entrances. Daylight beats midnight.
Inspect before you pay. Start the engine, run the phone, check the papers — a real seller expects it.
Never pay in advance. No token amounts, no courier fees, no "booking deposits" for something you haven't seen.
Keep your own record — texts, call logs, screenshots. There is no messaging on Adzmonster, so nothing about your conversation is kept here.
For vehicles and property, verify ownership documents independently. An advisor review is a screen, not a title search.
A price far below every similar ad on the board is the oldest hook there is — the pulse will show you.

Your data, your rights

Leave with everything. Or leave nothing behind.

Under India's DPDP Act and the GDPR — and by our own standard regardless of where you live — your data answers to you. Both of these are self-serve from your settings, no reason required, no waiting period designed to wear you down.

Export everything

Your ads, your contact card, your settings, favourites and saved searches — packaged and handed to you in a portable format, whenever you ask.

Delete for good

Deletion removes your ads, your vault and your photos. Sold everything or just moving on — when you're done, you're gone.

In writing

What we will never do

We will never put a contact channel on your ad that you did not tick — and unticking one takes it off your ads.
We will never send you an SMS, or use SMS OTPs. Not for signup, not for marketing, not at all.
We will never sell, rent or trade your data to advertisers, brokers or “partners”.
We will never let a payment buy the advisor mark. Verification is earned in review, or not at all.
We will never keep a taken-down or expired ad on the boards to keep earning views.
We will never make deleting your account hard, partial or shameful.

An honest ad is where it starts.

The legal versions of these promises live in our privacy policy and terms. Seen something off? Report it — a person reads every message.

Plain answers

Questions people ask

Where are my contact details kept?: Against your account, in a vault, not inside the ad. Only the channels you switch on in settings are copied onto an ad, and switching one off takes it back off. Your legal name, exact address and alternate number are for advisors verifying you and are never published.
How does Adzmonster deal with scams?: Phone numbers, emails and handles are stripped from ad text before it goes public. Known scam patterns such as too-good-to-be-true pricing, courier-fee stories and advance-payment hooks are flagged in the review queue, and a person reads every ad before it goes up. Reviews reduce the volume; they do not remove the need to inspect before you pay.
What should I do when meeting a seller or buyer?: Meet in a public, busy place in daylight, inspect before you pay, never pay in advance, keep your own record of the conversation, and for vehicles and property verify ownership documents independently. An advisor review is a screen, not a title search.
Can I take back details I published?: Yes. Switch a channel off in settings and it comes off your ads the next time each is saved. What you published is a choice you can reverse.