Craigslist and other free online marketing and advertising sites are a great way to promote your real estate listings and other items that you would like to sell.  I have been posting on Craigslist for a few years now and have received great results for my personal items to sale, and mixed results with real estate listings and rentals as well. 

With that said, I have been receiving more and more Spam mail lately from having advertise on Craigslist that have nothing to do with the property listing or item that I have posted for sale!  These Spam messages say anything from "Do you need money? Please click on this link" to "I am interested in your item for sale, please email me your contact information and I will send you a very large check in your name, I will pay extra for covering your hardship of cashing this big check...." 

Another dangerous thing is that they have links to their website that supposedly make you money.  Please do not click on these links because they will lead you to a website that will steal all the personal information from your computer, or put a virus on your computer.  I have replied to a few just to test them out, and now, I am getting these spam messages on my Active Rain posts!  These low lives post their advertising on your blog posts and try to infect your readers.  All you have to do is to report to Active Rain or your blog administrator and delete their viscous messages.

Another malicious thing these scam artists do is once you have posted on Craigslist, they will use your email to send spam mail to someone else, or even to yourself!  I have also received many spam mail from my own email advertising free links that will make me money, but are just links to viscous sites that will take your personal information.  When I reply to my own email, which just emailed me the spam, I actually email myself!  I do not know how these low lives were able to use my very own email to spam myself, but please be careful out there. 

Please, my fellow real estate agents, Realtors, friends and colleages, be careful when you are posting on free online marketing sites like Craigslist and do not reply to this obnoxious and intrusive emails from these low life scammers with nothing to do but prey on innocent people like you and me.  Please report these emails to Craigslist or your local police.  We need to stop them. 

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