Just for fun I posted a sarcastic ad in the missed connections section on craigslist. Something about how her perfume obscured all other sensations... I was simply making an anonymous joke about women who wear too much perfume, I expected no response.
Instead I got a ton of emails. And all the same ones you might get if you had posted a true personal ad, too! "Hey I liked your ad" and "looks like we have a lot in common" and "here's my pic hope you like what you see" and all kinds of painfully obvious bullshit. Their responses inevitably had nothing to do with my ad, and the pic included was, inevitably, of some hottie with big tits dressed in hardly anything. How can I take something like that seriously?
Who the fuck are these spammers, anyway? Why do they send false pics and even bother to answer the ads? Even if they are just using bots, is it really worth all that effort just to farm a couple pics and email addresses? More importantly, do enough people fall for their scams that they can keep doing it? Incredible to think of the answer of that one (yes) but what's more incredible to me is how much of a shit dump craigslist has become.
Quite simply, spammers have destroyed craigslist. Come to think of it, I cannot recall one instance in recent memory, that is to say, within a year, that posting or answering a craiglist ad has resulted in anything but spam. No, in fact, not one ad or answer in the past year has resulted in anything except time lost to spam or mystery postings.
What I don't get is how can spammers have let themselves ruin the internet? Scum of the earth is too kind a term...
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