WARNING for Craigslist Users

"Red"

Graphic Designer
I received an email today (shown below) which threw up some red flags for me.


  1. Obviously NOT from Craigslist
  2. Should definitely be your Craigslist account email address
  3. Authentic looking link to Craigslist until you look at the "hidden" URL [in this case it was [http:\\craigs-list-org.net46.net\ - fake login screen]*
  4. Convincing link to Craigslist help (don't know if it's a valid email or not).

Be careful about exposing your real email address on Craigslist. This last round of ads I used my real email address instead of the Craigslist anonymous email address (xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx@serv.craigslist.org), which, I'm sure is why I received the email below.

* I altered the link so that it would not function here.

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