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How to stop a certain spam, from Craigs List

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Margo1

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Hello,
I have been trying for about 2 or 3 years to sell some furniture from Craigs List to no avail. All I get are scams and spam. There is one spam that I keep getting for a long time now:

"Wow is it really you? What a small world, I recgonized your writing style in your cl listing and made the decision to email you glad that your email is still the same. I used to have a major crush on you in the past but alas you dated my friend instead. Not to be blunt but I heard you were good in bed so I've always wanted to experience that. Hey, do you mind chatting with me on my private profile page? It's secure and discreet on there so it'll be a great way for us to talk. My private photos and cell # are on there also so you can see who I am. The minute you sign on, I'll message you first. I can't wait to hear from you!!! 🙂"

Then it shows a link for I think is a porn website.
The email address comes from several sources, so blocking it will not work. Any suggestions how to stop this? Thank you.
 
Scam and spam is a way of life on CL. Just ignore, don't bother to reply, and use CL-anonymized email address. As with all spam, if its context is similar but from different address, just create a filter on email body keywords and auto-place them in your trash folder.

I've sold lots of furniture on CL, usually within a couple of weeks or less (probably because it was used for less than 5 years and I'm in Bay Area). Make sure to have good/catchy description, big photos and cheap price. If no/small amount of responses, re-list your items every few days or so, and make sure that CL does not ghosts your ad.
 
gevorg said:
Scam and spam is a way of life on CL. Just ignore, don't bother to reply, and use CL-anonymized email address. As with all spam, if its context is similar but from different address, just create a filter on email body keywords and auto-place them in your trash folder.

I've sold lots of furniture on CL, usually within a couple of weeks or less (probably because it was used for less than 5 years and I'm in Bay Area). Make sure to have good/catchy description, big photos and cheap price. If no/small amount of responses, re-list your items every few days or so, and make sure that CL does not ghosts your ad.
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Good advice. Thank you.
 
In addition to above advice. If you are using free emails like gmail/hotmail etc then mark those emails as 'spam'. Never put out your email in Post body. If the email looks suspicious then try not to open it especially if it contains attachment.

Selling stuff wise the price of items should be right and pictures also help.
 
That's why I like Mailwasher Pro. I can see all email in all my accounts and delete them from the server if I don't want them. My actual download rate is about 20%. The rest get trashed before downloading.

On some mailboxes I use white list only. Email from any address not on the list is automatically bounced back to sender.
 
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