Why are there so many scams on Craigslist?

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The Mass
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Why are there so many scams on Craigslist?

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For you europeans, is craigslist as scam-ridden as the u.s. Version? Virtually every freelance writing job I applied there is either a scam or someone trying to work you for pennies and dump you after (nothing remotely long term). Even when I was looking for manual labor on there it was sales crap and scams. Have any of you found a real job on there? One guy claimed he wanted a blogger for $50 per article and I wrote him a post about Google and he kept tryong to change it and over the phone told me he wnated me to make him look super smart. I was like wtf, is he using my skills and name to make it look like he wrote it or sonething? Than he also called me at like 12 drunk telling me to write it with google cars, and other google crap in there about how the xompany xan make a shit load of money. He actually used that term "shit load of money." u was like wtf, how am I gonna give advice to a billion dollar company how they cna make more money? If I was that good you better pay me more than $50 for the article. Whats funby is I thik he wanted to find someone to write sonething so good that Google would hire him and was probably unemployed hinself. He even wnated me to find some stats about how much google made on apps annually or sonething and I had no idea where to even look.
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is that post an indication of your writing skills?
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andyman wrote:is that post an indication of your writing skills?
Really tough to read :down:
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Why are there so many The Mass threads in GD?
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Because there isn't a law for mandatory drowning of douchebags with an extra chromosome.
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xer0s wrote:Why are there so many The Mass threads in GD?
I do wonder :smirk:

Is it a smart bot? Smarter than us :eek:
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i've reported this mass bot

yes it was me
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and filed it under Warez
you some kind of mornan?..
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:olo:
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:olo:
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:eek:
it is about time!
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You where looking for serious, honest work that would pay on Craiglist?

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Save the trees Chuck! Save the trees!
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imdb wrote:John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.
"evil lumberjacks" :olo:
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lol great gif...
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Reminds me of Randy.
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this guy isnt half as angry though
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Very true.
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That gif is from a real movie? Excellent :olo:
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