Woman's House Robbed After Fake Craigslist Post

flanksteak writes "The Seattle Times is reporting that a woman in nearby Tacoma had her rental property stripped of almost everything after someone posted a fake Craigslist announcement that everything in the house could be hauled away no questions asked. When contacted, Craigslist said they would release data about the poster if they were issued a subpoena."

Comments

They got this place too!

[Burdell]

Cleaned it out:

"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

Re:They got this place too!

[ByteSlicer]

... it out:

"... for ... to ... ... . Please move ... ."

(Even left some words for other people)

Im evil

[normuser]

This really should be sad. But I laughed.

Just picked up - wait a minute...

[Tacoma_Furniture_Sal]

Uh oh.

Hi

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Rob "cmdrtaco" Malda.

I have to get rid of everything in my house quickly, and I'm gonna let it go for free in order to get it out of here fast. Please leave the computers in the back closet though, I use those for slashdot.

Thanks

Rob

Re:Hi

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, cmdrtaco again... please also leave the hamster cages alone where the electricity for the servers is generated. And the pet food I need to keep the app server and the db server running. Also remember the cable modem belongs to the cable company so just leave that connected to the hamsters.

Re:Hi

[Anonymous Coward]

PS: please leave alone the manatee, his keyboard, and the two sticks tied to his flippers.. I use him to edit article submissions for the site.

Re:nothing you can do about this

[jbrader]

OK, I'm from Tacoma. I really love it there but it's not the kind of place where you leave your door unlocked. Ever heard of Ted Bundy? He grew up in Tacoma. The Beltway Snipers got their gun in Tacoma. One of the Watergate conspirators was from Tacoma. You lock your doors.

It's also the hometown of Frank Herbert and Bing Crosby so it's not all bad, but still.

That sounds like something I saw

[aussie_a]

That sounds like a Craiglist ad I saw, except that one was real. I know because I went there and took the plasma television. Funny how two ads can be placed on the same site saying the same thing, even in the same area.

Re:That sounds like something I saw

[Some_Llama]

WTF?!?! That was you?!? That ad was a fake and you stole _MY_ TV!!!

Please return it asap, I have moved though, so you will need to bring it to my new address, no hard feelings if you hurry.

Re:I'm non-plussed

[NFN_NLN]

do we really at this point need be kept informed of the breaking development that yes, new technologies will be used by criminals

When the stories are this funny.... then yes :)

Re:The Best Idea Ever

[afidel]

The one I pulled wasn't quite as mean spirited or destructive. I posted a picture of a classic Vette all over town with an ad stating that due to an unusual work schedule I could only be contacted between 2am and 6am. The price of the mint condition Vette? $6,000. Boy was my mark pissed off at being called at all hours of the night by people looking to buy the car. He never tried to pull another prank on me =)

Re:nothing you can do about this

[nuzak]

> You know the type -- liars, thieves, doles, and the dupes who voted them into congress.

I'm pretty sure the Doles are republicans actually :)

Mod me down

[Tablizer]

This user wants to be modded down. Please mod him/her down.

post a new ad?

[tilde_e]

Has the victim tried to post a new ad asking for her stuff back? The lost+found section?

Re:nothing you can do about this

[Sancho]

Pissing someone off does not make theft legal, either. Jeez, for the last time, it's not theft, it's COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

Re:nothing you can do about this

[Khaed]

I thought it was piracy.

else, what am I to do with all these silly eyepatches?

Re:nothing you can do about this

[Anonymous Coward]

Although you have to admit it would be cool to know the poster's address. We could go take all of his stuff :)

Re:Lots of vultures out there

[Elladan]

"As it is, it's Tacoma, and thus only has merely common levels of decency, and thus there's a few vultures present."

... that is, if you consider zombie hordes of meth heads prowling the streets in broad daylight, tearing people from their cars and then ripping the human flesh off with rotting zombie teeth and broken shards of Chihuly glass to be the common level of decency. We are talking about Tacoma here, right?

Rrrroooaaaaaah... <drool> <stab> <stab> Wwwweeeeelcoo tuuu Taaaaacohma... <gnaw gnaw gnaw>

Yeah, that's what Tacoma is like.

She's lucky they didn't set up a meth lab and then torch the place to see the pretty colors.

Re:All guilty...

[AndrewRUK]

And, dear slashdotters, that post is an example of why the preview button was invented...

123 Main St.

[quokkapox]

Boy do I feel bad now for the poor schmuck who lives at 123 First St., Schenectady, NY 12345

I've been signing them up for junk mail, spam, credit card offers, everything for years now.

Holy shit, Google Maps says that that address actually exists.

Sorry, dude.

Re:123 Main St.

[sulfur]

I try not to harm innocent people and use support@microsoft.com for such purposes.

That's an apartment building

[Anonymous Coward]

I live in 3B. We like the free pr0n, it's ... interesting.

Re:Lots of vultures out there

[walkie]

Ah, Tacoma's not that bad. I'm not saying I want to build a summer home there, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

Re:What is wrong with people?

[Anonymous Coward]

A conservative is a liberal whose house has been broken into.

The Criminal Justice System Is Represented By.....

[NDPTAL85]

Law & Order = Ripped From The Headlines
Law & Order: SVU = Ripped From The Pantylines
Law & Order: CI: Ripped From Their Behinds

Re:The Best Idea Ever

[Guppy06]

"all you have left is a couple of dumb drunk teenage girls who have no idea whats going on."

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!

Re:The Best Idea Ever

[operagost]

Boy was my mark pissed off at being called at all hours of the night

All hours? They could have at least had the courtesy to keep it between 2 and 6 AM. Sheesh!

Re:nothing you can do about this

[operagost]

Detroit is like Detroit in Robocop.

Re:Lots of vultures out there

[Chris Burke]

If pedantry was a martial art, you would have just knocked him across the room with a roundhouse kick, punched through his rib cage, torn out his heart, and held it aloft.

Shang Tsung: Fatality!

Re:I had the opposite happen

[networkBoy]

I had someone empty out my storage locker at one of those self storage places, then put it all back. Only thing broken was a floor lamp. (different locks and all).
All I can figure is that someone hired a moving company and told them they didn't have the keys anymore, thus the company just cut the lock. I wonder who shit a bigger pile when they showed up with all the wrong stuff . . . the homeowner or the moving company?

I had tons of old computer stuff and as far as I could tell, nothing was missing. The fact it was in storage, however, should give an idea of its relative usefulness.
-nB

Re:Same here, to a lesser extent

[Some_Llama]

This is probably because you "think" you're living in a house when actually you're living in a walmart, the low wages just give the impression of not being paid.

Re:Been there, almost

[Some_Llama]

I felt bad when i read your post as you obviously ran out of page breaks.. here are a few, they are good for breaking up long posts into smaller paragraphs:

Re:Lots of vultures out there

[eugene ts wong]

Are you saying that you like the trees because they block the view of Tacoma when you are on the outside? That's why I like those trees.