Craigslist Spambot Attack

Yesterday I renewed the ad with a lower price on it and within 5 minutes I got a new email.

"Hey man, do you still have that Jeep for sale?"

I emailed back "yes"

"I think you could get a much better price. Checkout this link"

Spambot.

A couple of hours later, the romantic spambots arrived.

Hows it going? nmy name happens to be Cristy

I looked at your post (rare jeep scrambler - $7000 (bedford)) on craglist and I'm located in roanoke too! I Wonder if its possible you are
on the dot the form of man I am have strong feelings for.

I 24 years old, clearly out ncomputer science school and not nattracted in anything nfast, just a nplayful friend ;).

You can catch my information and a ton of pictures on this date site I'm part of.
Few of them will show up some personal parts :-).

Somebody needs to set up a spambot dating site so all these robots can get together and sell each other stuff.

Finally this morning was yet another one

Hi,

Thanks for choosing our craigslist phone marketing program. In the next 2 days you will start getting telemarketing calls from our affiliates with some limited offers!

Maximum number of calls on a daily basis as opted by you :: 39

Preferable time opted by the applicant to get telemarketing calls: 12:15 AM - 5:45 AM roanoke

If you would like to unsubscribe from our list, click here.

You gotta give the last guy credit -- when I see I'm going to get 39 calls a day from somebody, you immediately have my attention!

Sadly, this is crippling Craigslist.I know guys who used to market using CL -- they were making good money everyday. But those days are over as now the goldrush has begun. Everybody and their brother are writing little bots to go out and try to sucker people into clicking a link.

Sigh.