Archive for the 'Craigslist' Category

Craigslist Scam Fighting

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Richard McEachin
on February 19, 2010
in Craigslist and Fraud
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Top Craigslist scams and how not to be bamboozled

Craigslist does offer very sensible advice on how to recognize and avoid scams. The problem is many victims apparently don’t heed the advice. Don’t want to become one of these poor schmucks. Then pay careful heed.

Exposing scam artists who use Craigslist

I created this blog site to expose the scam artists, crooks, and their tactics that prey on honest hard working people on craigslist. I encourage you to share your stories and experiences with other people so that we may better serve the craigslist community, by making it a safer place.

Searching the Personal Ads

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Richard McEachin
on August 14, 2009
in Craigslist, Search Engines and Search Strategies
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CraigsList Search Engine

AllofCraigs is another CraigsList search engine built on a Custom Google Search.

It also  allows you to query specify all Craigslist and  other ad sites and get results pulled from a custom Google search.

A Twitter stream tool allows you to see tweets that contain the word Craiglist.  However, you also get Tweets that  just mention the word Craigslist not ones with links to ads.

A search for the words toronto incall returns  many, many hits in this fast changing type of ad, while Search All Craig’s returns none. This might be useful for searching Craigslist for telephone numbers. My early searches for telephone numbers seem more successful using this than Craigslist itself.

Craigslist Search Engine

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Richard McEachin
on October 20, 2008
in Craigslist, Private Investigator, Search Engines and Search Strategies
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A new Craigslist search engine using a Google custom search has surfaced. Supposedly, that means no more searches using  site:craigslist.org “search terms”.  Search All Craig’s puts a convenient front end to a cross-city Craig’s search that uses Google on the back end.

I can’t really recommend this thing. If you do a search for the words toronto incall it returns only 2 hits. If you go to the Toronto erotic services section and do a search for  incall you get over 1200 results. The flaw is the rapid change that occurs on Craigslist and how Google updates its index. This isn’t the tool to use if you are looking for a telephone number used in a Craigslist ad. The search  site:craigslist.org “search terms” searches has the same flaw. However, in the case of site:craigslist.org toronto incall, this search string provided more results than Search All Craig’s (9 with this search and 2 with Search All Craig’s).