Anyone ever get an email stating this? Craigslist acct. hijacked

[moshquerade]

Legit? I'm a skeptic so I think it's a scam, but am wondering if anyone else got a similar email.

Dear XXXX,

We are very sorry to inform that your craigslist account was hijacked on the 3th of July 2010, In order to reinstate your account you need to provide a valid, working phone number that wasn`t used on craigslist before. The phone number with which your account was verified is blacklisted due the hijacking. To help enforce our terms of use and to stop fraud accounts, craigslist requires an account, verified by phone,the terms of use, violations will be subject to account suspension and blacklisting of the phone number used to verify the account.

Click here to activate your craigslist account.

*I removed the link, but this is it if anyone dare click it:
http://accounts.craiglist-phone-verification.org.verify-8534.23q3w.com/login/


After confirming your phone number, you will receive an automated SMS and an authorization code. You will have to type the authorization code and your account will be verified.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Domain is accounts.craiglist-phone-verification.org.verify-8534.23q3w.com

So obviously a scam it's ridiculous. I hope it works, some people just deserve to be scammed for being so stupid.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Obvious scam is obvious.

 

[moshquerade]

Well thank you Thing Two and Thing One. I figured it was a scam. Was wondering if I was the lucky first person to receive this email.

 

[Mike Gayner]

i figured it was a scam. Was wondering if i was the lucky first person to receive this email.

legit?

orly?

edit: and to answer your question, no I very much doubt you're the sole recipient of this obvious scam.

 

[moshquerade]

orly?

way to cut up my quote. "I think it's a scam"

 

[Q]

Even if it had a chance to be true, it isn't worth risking clicking that link / linking your phone number. CL has no important information that you must recover in order to use the service as opposed to say eBay or Paypal. So IF it were somehow true that it was hacked, then no big deal, just create a new account on CL.

 

[moshquerade]

Even if it had a chance to be true, it isn't worth risking clicking that link / linking your phone number. CL has no important information that you must recover in order to use the service as opposed to say eBay or Paypal. So IF it were somehow true that it was hacked, then no big deal, just create a new account on CL.

Yeh, agreed. I don't give out info willy nilly to anyone.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Willy and Nilly are pleased that you don't out them.

 

[lxskllr]

What's the goal? A phone number doesn't seem too useful, unless the real scam comes later.

 

[Squisher]

One like this got me a couple of months ago. Mozilla caught it as a web forgery.

 

[Soundmanred]

Willy and Nilly are pleased that you don't out them.

They live in another country, so it wouldn't matter much. We have our suspicions anyway.

 

[Schfifty Five]

After reading the atrocious grammar in the email, how could you even have the slightest doubt that it wasn't a scam. Not to mention that link to another domain site.

 

[Lifted]

some nigerian cunts. tell em to fuck off

 

[HappyPuppy]

They live in another country, so it wouldn't matter much. We have our suspicions anyway.

My two doggies are named Willy and Nilly. I can assure you that both of them are natural born American citizens.

 

[Soundmanred]

My two doggies are named Willy and Nilly. I can assure you that both of them are natural born American citizens.

Sorry, thought you were referring to Gaylord and Astro.

 

[Q]

After reading their email again, one possibility they were trying to pull is the call your phone number 15 times a day and hope you pick up, then keep you on long as possible to rack up fees.

A few weeks ago somebody from PR kept calling me, 10 times a day for 5 days, and it was quite annoying.

 

[Schfifty Five]

After reading their email again, one possibility they were trying to pull is the call your phone number 15 times a day and hope you pick up, then keep you on long as possible to rack up fees.

A few weeks ago somebody from PR kept calling me, 10 times a day for 5 days, and it was quite annoying.

How can you be charged a fee for answering a call?