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Scam Breaker
July 12, 2010
Overposting
I noticed identical personal postings in Craiglist throughout various cities. In fact, I have found three different postings in various US cities. I notified CL and gave my phone number so I could give the specifics to CL. Instead, I am finding CL themselves are playing games with me. Sending me canned responses like their terms and conditions and saying I am the one overpostings. The problem is an individual can not overpost yet somehow some individuals can. I suspect it is CL themselves for some unknown reason and now they are trying to scare me. They have picked the wrong person to try to scare. Today they suspended my account saying I was overposting which again is impossible unless you are CL or have some type of software that allows this. I gave them two days to repond to my latest message or I will declare war and take this complaint as high as I can.
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somewhatsmartuser
July 10, 2010
Scammer
FYI people seems like at least 90% of personal ads in the casual encounters section are scams to link to other sites to get credit card info or some other sensitive info. Don't be fooled do the check on sites like this or others.
If the email address comes from something that you've never seen before (ie not gmail, yahoo, aol, hotmail) thats an immediate red flag.
The second red flag as those email domains as well, as they are free to get. Also do some back and forth before you send any sensitive information, often times the persons email address changes between correspondences.
General rules of thumb. If it sounds to good to be true it probably is. Take some extra precautions when interacting with personal ads, setup a dummy email address that doesn't have any personal info about yourself (fake name, address etc) there should be nothing that links back to who you actually are.
Be safe and happy hunting
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