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A friend of mine was a victim of a false Craigslist listing inviting people to come by his home and take "free" items from his property. The listing was removed

A friend of mine was a victim of a false Craigslist listing inviting people to come by his home and take "free" items from his property. The listing was removed before he got home from work and realized what happened. It would have been useful to have an archived copy of the listing.

june07 3y ago
Yep! Sorry to hear that but it certainly stands as a use case for this.
chankstein38 3y ago
Oh dang I never even thought of that. That seems like a solid use case. Sorry to your friend!
smcin 3y ago
The value of being able to see the deleted posts is so you can recognize the posters or their telltale phrases in future: a) Too-good-to-be-true accommodation listings on CL/FB listing artificially low weekly/month-to-month rates on nice-looking properties, in order to "acquire" unwitting customers for marketing RE or 12+ month leases to. RedFin and/or their affiliates seemed to be doing a huge amount of this throughout 2022. b) Deposit scammers on CL, FB advertising properties for which they are not the landlord; meet in person to pretend to take application and deposit. (Someone I know was scammed $1400. Obviously be skeptical, check owner, never give cash to strangers - but this still happens). c) Another telltale is when the identity of the "apply to" URL is disguised using shorteners (or rendered as image). d) Nuisance landlord(/roommate) scammers on CL/FB who repeatedly post a similar generic ad under different names/ addresses/ userids; then don't know which property in which country you're responding to, won't reply by phone, are in a different timezone/country, and insist you fill in their third-party application form incl. your contacts and SSN.
willsmith72 3y ago
I really hate these scammers. I've moved quite a few times and when it gets to be a week out and I still have so much stuff and no time, I've often tried to give it away, but people are so suspicious that they could get a free couch or desk that we have to go through 10 messages for them to trust me. I can't be bothered to exchange that many messages with 20 people just to give something away. I want an apartment equivalent of a garage sale for good stuff, not junk
- DANmode 3y ago
  Write "estate sale".
- Lacerda69 3y ago
  just put in on the street with a sign. At least in my area this are gone quickly if they are still good quality

june07 3y ago

Yep! Sorry to hear that but it certainly stands as a use case for this.

chankstein38 3y ago

Oh dang I never even thought of that. That seems like a solid use case. Sorry to your friend!

smcin 3y ago

The value of being able to see the deleted posts is so you can recognize the posters or their telltale phrases in future: a) Too-good-to-be-true accommodation listings on CL/FB listing artificially low weekly/month-to-month rates on nice-looking properties, in order to "acquire" unwitting customers for marketing RE or 12+ month leases to. RedFin and/or their affiliates seemed to be doing a huge amount of this throughout 2022. b) Deposit scammers on CL, FB advertising properties for which they are not the landlord; meet in person to pretend to take application and deposit. (Someone I know was scammed $1400. Obviously be skeptical, check owner, never give cash to strangers - but this still happens). c) Another telltale is when the identity of the "apply to" URL is disguised using shorteners (or rendered as image). d) Nuisance landlord(/roommate) scammers on CL/FB who repeatedly post a similar generic ad under different names/ addresses/ userids; then don't know which property in which country you're responding to, won't reply by phone, are in a different timezone/country, and insist you fill in their third-party application form incl. your contacts and SSN.

willsmith72 3y ago

I really hate these scammers. I've moved quite a few times and when it gets to be a week out and I still have so much stuff and no time, I've often tried to give it away, but people are so suspicious that they could get a free couch or desk that we have to go through 10 messages for them to trust me. I can't be bothered to exchange that many messages with 20 people just to give something away. I want an apartment equivalent of a garage sale for good stuff, not junk

DANmode 3y ago
Write "estate sale".
Lacerda69 3y ago
just put in on the street with a sign. At least in my area this are gone quickly if they are still good quality