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It's been a long time since I tried an ad on Craiglist personals. As there hadn't been any hot pictures from scammers (actually, not even not-so-hot pictures), that sort of took the fun away. The last batch of replies was so blatant and bad that I just have to share it, though. Here are the responses I got. Check out the dead-giveaway ending on both e-mails from http://www.localsdating.info/ fake users. The funny thing is how they're both trying to recruit me for the same website -- or maybe it's the same person trying two different approaches, hoping at least one will work? ----- from "Karina Valdez" (ulricahongonf5721@yahoo.com) ----- Karina: Hi, mister! I liked your ad. How are you doing today? The basics: blonde, way short. Blue eyes behind glasses. A few small tattoos, and a pierced bellybutton. I'm curvy without being thick, 5'4" and 127. Let's see, what else. My biggest secret is that I can pole dance. It's a secret because I...

Curiously enough, Craigslist scammer "Amber" forgot that she never sent me a link. Probably got confused while doing mass cut-and-past. The link she does send in her second e-mail, to meetagirlnow.com, redirects to AmateurMatch, where her profile says she is Age 51! Possibly to fly under radar there so that she won't come up on a search by legitimate users. E-mail #1 from elagathahyuvsessomsi@hotmail.com you need to be d/d free with the exception of 420 E-mail #2 from Amber (elagathahyuvsessomsi@hotmail.com) Hey I still have not heard from you on that other site..... I am still interested in hooking up, but I still want to be secure about it. Can you please get in touch with me on this site http://meetagirlnow.com I am on the web right now so if you like what you see, we are able to definitely take this a step further tonight or tomorrow.

E-mail #1 from Tammy Me Tammy (decentgirl1984@gmail.com) - and yes, she did put it all in one massive paragraph with lousy punctuation and no capitalization. Hello Simon, Thanks for getting back to me. . . . anyway here is a Little about me, i am a missionary i work for my church,well what i basically do is to minister to the poor the less privilege and also those living with HIV and Aids preaching to them about the love and mercies of the lord God , i also visit motherless baby homes preaching to them about the love of God and his blessings and promises for us i also try to encourage them telling them not to give up on life .That is about what i do. I know now you will be wondering how come about this whole thing,well i started this at the age of 20 but it all happened when there was no one for me well i lost mom at the age of 3 dad left us when i was 10years old so after i lost mom there was no one out there for me, moms friend came along to my rescue, she took me with her to ...

A bit of a weird scammer, this one. Unlike the early hotties Taylor and Melissa who responded to our initial ads (and who have, later, responded again to our same ad, re-posted), Candice sends a "real person" picture to start -- not professionally taken, poor quality, and looking like a cougar way over the 36 she claims to be, not dressed to impress, and trying a bit too hard to look alluring. To compel you to hot-headed action, her second e-mail (with a shortened affiliate link to AmateurMatch.com) has indications that she is online right now, encouraging immediacy of action. Plus, the picture she sends is way hotter -- Full-on nudity (with black marker over her eyes) and looking 10 years young. Different hair, harder body, bigger and perfectly round breasts (boob job?). Obviously we can't post that here, but we can show you the initial picture she sent. Candice E-mail #1: (from kadenceauoj@aol.com but replies go to candice.j268358zz@clmail1.com) Hey, how are...

Looks like some affiliate program scammers on Craigslist men-looking-for-women personals just really don't care, or they've totally automated their system, including the production of e-mail addresses to use, presumably because they fully expect to be caught as spam and blocked. Initially a "they", this responder later became a single woman and sent me an X-rated pic. The crazy-looking e-mail address was the first clue, but I decided to respond anyway to see how it turned out. Sorry, I can't post the picture of her naked in bed (face cropped from the picture, so it could very well have been lifted from one of any number of adult sites). E-mail #1 We are really interesting and I'm searching for an older gentleman to own entertaining with today E-mail #2 Hey how are you Im interested in some thing that's long term, NSA. I want to keep this a secret - my ex-boyfriend is kinda a psycho ever since we broke up. haha .... 4 year relationship. Anyways.. ...

In my last post, I mentioned " sexxci_horny " ( ejkeliu4aviola9c@hotmail.com ) who wanted me to sign up with securedater.com. Well, since I didn't respond to that, she's now sent me an even more direct take-my-money site: Her E-mail #3 Heey I still haven't heard from you on that other site..... I'm still interested in hooking up, but I still want to be safe about it. Can you please contact me on this site.... http://meetagirlnow.com . I've just never done a online hookup thing before so I don't know what works and what doesn't but this one does for sure. i'll be online waiting for you in the chat room. Hope to hear from you soon. xoxo meetagirlnow.com redirects to datingsecure.com and up front it asks to charge your credit card $1 for 3 days of access. From the name of the site, it looks like whatever cheezy affiliate company is behind this is tying up the "secure date" search results with their websites. Oh, and she'...

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There are Craigslist Personals spammers, and lame Craigslist Personals spammers. Check out Elena, who sent me two e-mails, almost identical, responding to the same ad. And what are those nonsense letters at the bottom? Bulk mail tracking numbers?! E-mail #1, from "Lena" ( amayakjcyvws@aim.comamayakjcyvws@aim.com )   Hi. My name is Lena. I wish to get acquainted with good, serious person and make strong relationships. Repite, I am find for serious relations only! Reply on my mail: elenalenaaaa@yahoo.com Good bye dsmypd dgmrt gxhg     E-mail #2, from "Elena" ( amandalvxioa@aim.com ) Hi. My name is Elena. I dream to get acquainted with good, serious person and make strong relationships. Remember, I am find for serious relations only! Reply on my mail: elenalenaaaa@yahoo.com Faithfully yours ywplc jlsjwav dlfkvvo

Whoop! Even more spam profiles are contacting me through my Craigslist ad. It's sort of ironic, really. On dating/matching sites like Plenty Of Fish , guys can expect to have to do all the initiating. Also, no matter where you go (even real women on Craigslist), generally women will want to see a picture first and be in a position to reject the guys. But when it comes to finding suckers, every post by a man creates a feeding frenzy. Are men more vulnerable to the desperation of loneliness? Anyway, here's the message from Jan ( jan@ectarereplied.net ), who has a more subtle way of hinting at being easy with "fun" in quotes. Email #1 Hi I kind of like your message, I am too lokking [sic] to meet someone but it's been kind of tough to find a decent guy. How about we meet at the mall or Starbucks? We could see if we are compatible and then maybe move on to more "fun" stuff, lol. We can also meet at: http://www.kakoulechiot.net/ and see if ...

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Sad to say, after Taylor and Melissa , the Craigslist affiliate program scammers dropped in quality. schlatterbeckie554@hotmail.com didn't even send a picture before sending me a shortened link to her MeetLocals.com affiliate page! Her email #1 Hi Her email #2 Due to the unbelievable amount of men not serious about meeting just picture harvesting and emailing me false photos of themselves I have found it necessary to use a photo verifying service. I use http://twurl.nl/6k6viz because they do not charge. Have your picture verified and contact me. My profile id is LollyPopQT. I apologize for the hassle. See you soon. Her email #3 Haven't seen you yet... I'll be online for 20 mins. to IM if ya are up to it. The third e-mail is a classic marketing trick to elicit an urgency to take action. As we'll see in my next post about Catherine, even if all you have are words decent copywriting skills can be more powerful than sexy pictures.

Oh boy! I had no sooner finished posting about the lovely Taylor Burch responding to my personals ad on Craigslist when Melissa Gaines (e-mailing from erikmcclure858@yahoo.com) mailed me a couple more pictures of her lithe body and selling her profile on the same looks-like-a-phishing-scam site (http://craigslistsafe.net/profiles/melx3/). One of them was an NSFW naked-breasts pic which I haven't posted here (sorry -- but honestly, nothing to write home about, especially with the serious bikini tan lines). Here's the e-mail exchange: Melissa e-mail #1 Here is my picture as attached. Please e-mail me details what you are looking for along with your pictures. Thanks and waiting to hear from you soon. Melissa e-mail #2 hey thanks for getting back to me we should definitely meetup sometime... if youre interested of course :) a couple things i should set straight though: 1 we use condoms 2 you join a dating site that I belong to safedates no worries though its fr...

Over the last couple of weeks, I'd posted a Man Seeking Woman profile on Craigslist. I'd had enough of "friends" who were really needy I-need-a-shoulder-to-cry-on women latching on to me while they were in some drama/crisis or another, only to vanish after the crisis was over. So I thought I'd take more initiative and try to be more choosy. Anyway, it looks like tricking emotionally vulnerable men (i.e., guys posting personals on Craigslist) into signing up for pay sites or credit card phishing sites is big money. The girl with the gorgeous boobs you see above is "Taylor Burch" and she (probably a "he"?) wrote to me twice with canned responses from emshandleysk044@yahoo.com and essasingletonyd318@yahoo.com. Here is one such exchange: Taylor e-mail #1 Your ad interested me. I am friendly, easy going and love to have a great time. I think we could have fun together. Send a pic and lets see what happens. Taylor e-mail #2 cool :) ...