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Real Estate/Identity Theft Scam in Upstate New York

July 28, 2010 in Craigslist, Real Estate, Scams by Trench Reynolds | View Comments

Online rental scammers: The Real Deal:

Residents in the Syracuse, New York area are being warned of a real estate scam on craigslist that could steal your identity.

In this scam it starts off with a phony ad being placed on craigslist except the ad is copied from a legitimate realtor. When you contact the person who placed the ad they send you to a website that they say is intended to get your credit report when in reality it’s set up just to steal your information.

My friends at Geebo tell me that the technology exists to remove ads like this before they ever get posted. Take a look at their site: geebo.com.

Don’t forget to enter to win your own CCL T-Shirt.

Craigslist crime post #1259
Real Estate post #98
Scam post #186

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Queens woman forced others into craigslist sexual slavery

June 30, 2010 in Craigslist, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | View Comments

DA: Flushing Woman Ran Prostitution Ring from Long Island Spas:

Queens madam forced young Korean women into lives of sex slavery in L.I. massage parlors:

44-year-old Jin Hua Cui of Flushing, Queens, New York has been charged with forcing women into sexual slavery. Cui allegedly advertised nail salon jobs to the Korean community of Flushing. Instead of that the women she recruited were forced into working in Cui’s Long Island massage parlors. She threatened the women with either revealing to their families what they were forced to do or by saying that they would be killed by Chinese gangs.

And where did Cui advertise her massage parlors? Why craigslist of course. And I’m guessing it was in the adult services section where only ‘legitimate’ adult businesses are supposed to be.

Even if the drive from Flushing to Long Island was only 30 minutes that’s still human trafficking if you’re using coercion to force someone into sexual slavery. That’s the human trafficking that craigslist says they find abhorrent. If they did they would remove the adult services section.

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Craigslist to stop sale of Shakespeare tickets, sales of women and kids still ok

June 11, 2010 in Craigslist by Trench Reynolds | View Comments

Craigslist Stops Selling Public Theater’s Free Tickets:

Isn’t this so community minded of craigslist? They’re working with the Public Theater in New York City to make sure that no tickets to Shakespeare In The Park are sold on their website. The tickets are supposed to be free but they are limited.

After the Attorney General’s Office notified Craigslist of the problem, Craigslist voluntarily agreed to take down existing ads and work with the Public Theater to remove any future ads selling tickets that are meant to be free.

So let me get this straight. Craigslist is willing to review their site for tickets to Shakespeare in the Park after being contacted by the AG’s office yet they claim they can’t do anything about the prostitution and human trafficking on their site? Are you kidding me?

Nice priorities you have there craigslist. Or is this just throwing a bone to New York Attorney General, and gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Cuomo?

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Brooklyn Bloods Backpage prostitution

June 3, 2010 in Backpage, Craigslist, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | View Comments

8 Charged with Sex Trafficking Girls, Women in Brooklyn:

Bloods gang members went to Brooklyn schools to recruit underage girls as hookers: prosecutors:

Eight people in Brooklyn, some which are Bloods gang members, have been indicted for running 3 separate prostitution rings that included not only women but teens as young as 15.

They allegedly recruited girls from area high schools. If the girls or women did not make the minimum of $500 a day they would be beaten court papers say.

As is expected the girls were advertised on both craigslist and the Village Voice Media owned backpage.

Not only did both articles not seem a comment from Village Voice Media but they didn’t seek comment from craigslist either. Even if craigslist gave their usual non-response the effort would have been appreciated.

So the media is actually going backwards in their investigating.

Thanks to Pete Gleason for the tip.

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