IMO, if they don't change things soon on craigslist, this site will become what Yahoo chat rooms did years ago.
A while ago my gf applied for a few jobs on CL and almost 90% of them were spam. Auto responses saying "please provide a copy of your credit report via this link" or even sites saying to pay $100 for an application fee payable via paypal
Anyway, on Monday I posted an add for housing... looking to rent a house instead of an apt and my lease is up next month and I have to decide. Ive gotten nothing but spam, but actually looking at the repsonses its bad
18 total replies...
16 spam or scams
- 12 wanted me to get a credit report via an affiliate link and send it to them
- 3 wanted me to send a money order deposit between $400 and $1500 to their "new home" in another state
- 1 wanted me to "take over" the house where their DECEASED daughters ex husband lives. they said they would wire me the money and I would then "buy" the house from them by sending them the contract back with a deposit
WOW!
of the 2 that were not some type of spam or scam, 1 was completely not even close to where I am looking for and the other is someone looking to rent their grandmothers home out for 2x what you should be paying
honestly, its getting bad on there and the site is now almost useless. personally i know I have been using it less and less, as well i know people looking to hire people are not even posting on CL because they are getting garbage spam.
IMO, I think they need to have a registration system where you need to have an account to email or contact anyone that posts on there... if not this will continue to be a spam/scammer feeding ground