I found my apartment here from NS on craiglist. Great place, great roommates. And before I chose this one, I had conversations with a few other people who also were quite honest and... well normal.
I did receive a few replies from wannabe scammers, but in all honesty if you're stupid enough to get through the first few sentences of these e-mails they send without laughing, you're stupid enough to be deserve to be scammed.
They come in two ways.
One is a girl who is moving to Calgary to attend <insert local university here>. She would like to rent your room (even if your ad, like mine was, is seeking accomodations for yourself). Her Daddy will send you a few thousand dollars extra in traveller's cheques and you are to forward the extra money to her via western union so she can fly there. In the e-mails I got, it actually had <insert local university here> in the message, as they hadn't bothered to look it up I guess..?
The second one is from someone, usually in Europe, who just bought a house in Calgary in order to run a business selling whatever product all over North America. They have recently had to return to Europe because someone in their family has tragically passed away. They would like you to come live in their house, rent free, under the condition that you recieve payments from their customers (in the form of cheques or money orders), keep 10%, and forward the rest on to them in Europe. They haven't actually finalized the sale on the house, but they are willing to send you a key if you just send them a bunch of personal information.
Sooooo... in conclusion, yeah you can trust craiglist as long as you can tell the difference between a real, legitimate human being from some robot-produced mass email with bad english that wants you to send them money.
Last edited by Save Us Sutter; 08-08-2007 at 02:15 AM.
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