The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., unveiled an online classified ad page that displays listings from the newspaper as well as from rival classified sites such as Craigslist. More...
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05/19/09 | No Comments »
It hasn’t been a good week for Craigslist.
The site has until 5 p.m. to take down its adult ads, or else, says South Carolina’s attorney general’s office.
On Wednesday Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster tried to strike a deal with South Carolina’s Attorney General Henry McMaster; Buckmaster offered to take down its “erotic services” within a week, but create an “adult” section. Erotic services are commonly believed to be a front for prostitution. Ironically, the more closely supervised ads would go up to $10, from $5 for mere erotic services. A nice trick, if you will forgive the pun. Read More »
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05/15/09 | No Comments »
As local media provide more direct ecommerce, scams will come with the territory. Craigslist as the leader of “wildwest” style community classifieds has more than adult ads to worry about.
Scammers are also targetting renters on Craigslist in Lousisiana, according to local station wwltv.com:
Here’s how it works: Scammers copy then re-post ads for houses, substituting their own contact information. Once a renter answers the ad on Craigslist, the scammers send them an email with instructions. They claim they need to rent the property quickly because they’re away doing missionary work. You send them the first month’s rent and a deposit and somebody in Nigeria pockets the money.
Probably scammers target Craiglist in part because its so successful
Slidell real estate agent Melody Martindale said that six days after she listed a house in the Kingspoint Subdivision, a bogus ad for the property appeared on Craigslist.
A person, allegedly from Nigeria, claimed to own the house and put it up for rent.
“It seems that they’re trying to get the renters, people who are looking for a place to rent, to mail them money through the mail and then they will mail you the keys so you can live in the home,” said Martindale. But, the keys never arrive.
If you’ve heard of a classifieds scam online, let us know.
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05/13/09 | No Comments »
There is truth to the stories about click farms in Eastern Europe. Cars.com says its a major problem. The company that battles click fraud, Click Forensics, says 17% of all clicks may be fraudulent. Google says its only 1%, however they paid a $90 million settlement to companies over fraudulent clicks in 2006.
Click fraud happens when companies design sites to receive pay-per-click links from networks like Google or Yahoo, and then pay people to artificially click on the links. More…
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05/13/09 | No Comments »
Other states are watching what happens to Craigslist in the South Carolina court system. Craigslist is one of the mostly “clean” media that accepts adult advertising (wink wink) they say is protected by first ammendment rights. More…
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05/08/09 | No Comments »
Flat fee online real estate broker, Redfin, is quietly staking flags in additional markets, including New York City, Central California and Sacremento. The company is already active Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where it both competes and partners with real estate agents. More…
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04/22/09 | No Comments »
The arrest of Boston student Philip Markoff on charges of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist.com begs a difficult question: is the online classifieds site safe? The case marks the third killing in recent years allegedly linked to people meeting through Craigslist. More…
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04/22/09 | No Comments »
