Craigslist Ransacking Was To Cover Up Burglary
from the well-that-didn't-work dept
Remember that story last week about someone posting a fake ad on Craigslist, leading to people ransacking a house and taking all sorts of stuff? It turns out that the folks behind the fake ad were simply trying to cover up their own burglary of the house. Apparently, they had stolen some stuff from the garage and figured the best way to hide the theft was to get a ton of other people to steal stuff as well, via the Craigslist ad. Of course, by posting the ad, they made it that much easier to track them down, as police retrieved the IP address and were able to figure out who was responsible. Once again, despite those who tried to "blame" Craigslist, it looks like Craigslist helped the police catch the crooks.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: craigslist, ransack, robbery, scam
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Losers
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That's kind of creative.
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And the kinkos uses a credit card.
Use a fucking proxy.
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Why not...
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If craigslist is informed that a posting is illegal or fraudulent, they have a responsibility to remove it.
The problem was that there are still too many people who seem to believe that if it's on the internet, it must be true.
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The ad was too good to be true, nobody is going to post that type of ad and the crooks that responded should have known this.
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OMFG!
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+1 for originality
IANAL, but aren't these sort of things (owner left town and left a bunch of stuff behind) usually handled by a court-ordered estate auction, not a web ad to come take someone's stuff? That should have been peoples' first clue.
At the very least, the ASCP or Humane Society would have come to take the horse themselves instead of telling people to just go rustle it.
And the thieves responding to the ad had a printout from a website and thought that was enough justification to commit burglary. I'm glad the cops are tracking down all the people seen leaving the scene with the owner's stuff and are charging them with theft.
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