Tramway Guy's been on here a while, and his posts seem genuine--looks like he's legitimately trying to warn people. Surf the Watertown Craigslist every day and there's been a TON of these scams lately, though I doubt it's confined to Watertown--the majority of these scams are run by international criminal rings. Most follow the pattern Tramway Guy mentioned, but they change fairly often as the scammers upgrade their methods to escape prosecution and automatic spam guards. The latest ones that have flooded the "free" section of CL involve "free" things to pick up such as bookcases, couches, etc. You get a message back saying the item is already spoken for but would you like to be notified if they don't pick it up? Once you reply back, they have your e-mail address as the Craigslist e-mail anonymizer only works on the first e-mail you send. The next message(s) tell you that they've got a great deal on something or other they thought you might want to take advantage of (free diet pills, a free tooth whitening, etc. etc.--they usual spam stuff) and of course you have to give them your credit card number to get the free sample, and of course once they have your card number, you're sunk. Know a couple people that have got hit with variations of this one--the ads typically (but not always) have a number string like Xd3 or 3ac or some other nonsense at the end or lots of_underlining_where it doesn't belong in_the ad to let the spammers track which ones get the most traffic. Flag them, report them if you feel like it (though unfortunately CL doesn't seem interested in getting rid of them) and spread the word.
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