Fraudulant Websites (5-1)

How often are you on the website Craigslist? Craigslist is a website that is like an online newspaper. You can find anything from jobs and apartments to baby clothes, cars, or skies. Although this website has been found to be convenient and useful it has also been found to be a scam or rip off. Have you ever went on Craigslist and tried to find a job? If you click on the field of the job that your looking for it pulls up a ton of jobs, the only problem is that more than half of these jobs are scams posted by Craigslist. How it works is that they post an ad then it has a Craigslist email address. You reply to the email and instantly you get an automated response sent to you. The response tells you to go fill out this form for pre-consideration for the job. I have learned from experience not to respond to anything that only post a Craigslist email address. Jobs that are legit have a legit email address or they include a phone and/or a fax number.
This site is also known for posting ads for erotic sites. This link allows people to post advertisement or for people to search for entertainment. The bad thing about this link is that it asks is the user 18 and older but you check the box off and it lets you go right into the sight. Some of the pictures on the sight are explicit and are not for the viewing of kids under 18. However, Craigslist really doesn’t have anything in place to prevent this from happening.
The website seems to attract a lot of scam artist and most recently a murder. Many people go on the website and post things for sale and once someone is interested they make arrangements to exchange the money and items. A couple months ago there was an incident where a guy was supposed to be meeting another guy to purchase some stereo equipment. Once he got to the destination the guy was jumped on and beaten up. Most recently the “Craigslist” killer has been in the news accused of meeting girls from off of Craigslist and then robbing and killing them.
The internet in general can be very useful however, without proper usage it can be a very dangerous place. However, sites like Craigslist shouldn’t exist. This website is a now hiring ad for criminals. Government officials should step in to keep sites like these away. Some police departments have undercover cops who go online looking for sexual predators. There should be someone like that who goes online looking for websites like Craigslist and forces these websites to shut down. Craigslist is a dangerous site and should be used with CAUTION. There are many more sites like it. The internet has become a thieves paradise. The only way to prevent such things is to use precaution and common sense.