We advertise our listed homes on Craig' List. It works, it gives the home

more exposure on the internet and we have had calls from serious buyers

who found our listings there.

BUT............

Lately we have been getting bogus emails from Craig's List just like the one

below:  This one is from Kristen Karalis (yeah, right!)

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** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY

** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home

** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping

** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

Hey, I saw a property listing of yours on Craigs that I'm very interested in. Here is the listing's url on Craigs.

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/reb/1255548836.html

Is it still available? If so please get back to me ASAP. im interested.

Thanks!

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this message was remailed to you via: hous-k6jgz-1255548836@craigslist.org

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The name looks valid but people don't usually write exactly the same

thing when they inquire about something.  These messages are all identical.

We have had a rash of fake buyers say they were buying other items also,

apparently to harvest email addresses.

At least that is all I can figure out. If you know why someone is spending hours

thinking up fake names and baiting thousands and thousands of ads, please

inform me.  If you are getting these, don't bother answering them, just delete

them like I do.

Westbrook Realty Grand Rapids Real Estate

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