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Old 04-15-2013, 07:58 PM
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Email phishing?

Not sure what the angle is of the current wave of nonsense replies to Craigslist ads.

For the same product in short order I got two "replies." Both had the same latter paragraph of the ad I had posted - a cut and paste.

The text of one was:

Get at me sometimes today so we can get this rolling at (email adress).

the other was:

(email adress) is where you can reach me so i'll be waiting.

Different addresses but both had strange names: Kierce Gering and Kobler Labarge.

A new twist on "is it still up for sale?"

Clearly they want me to write to their private email address - as opposed to the Craigslist anon encription. What's their racket? Is it just a bot that collects live e-mail addresses and sells them to mailing lists?

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They sell your address to the spammers.
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Old 04-15-2013, 08:58 PM
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Has to be it. I placed a singles ad once - what the heck - and got a "response" in short order - nothing in my ad was mentioned, just a "hey there . . . " and a pic of a sort of attractive young woman with an e-mail address in the pic and the words: "I don't respond to any other emails."

Uh huh.
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" and a pic of a sort of attractive young woman with an e-mail address in the pic and the words: "I don't respond to any other emails."

Uh huh.
This post is worthless without a pic.
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Old 04-15-2013, 09:05 PM
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They sell your address to the spammers.
Yep, just e-mail addy collection. Best policy is to feed the goatfawkers several dozen FAKE e-mail addresses (easy enough if you have the right e-mail client setup) and/or ISP abuse addresses. If everyone did that, their racket would stop being profitable.
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Old 04-15-2013, 11:28 PM
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This post is worthless without a pic.
Don't fall in love all at once . . .

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Old 04-15-2013, 11:31 PM
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Don't fall in love all at once . . .

So.........how was Clarissa........make her the new GF?
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Old 04-15-2013, 11:39 PM
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I don't like her face, not the bone structure but her energy, man. Besides, she wouldn't respond even after I e-mailed her at least 10 times. I have been getting some great offers for penis enlargement procedures though.
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Besides, she wouldn't respond even after I e-mailed her at least 10 times.
Clearly, you're new at this game...........

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