Comments on: Weird Craigslist Ad – 1969 Mustang Mach 1 $9500 (Free demon legion included – ok, I added that part)

By: jerry209

jerry209 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

It's someone out there trying to get your money………..for a non exisiting car. They're doing it with all sorts of merchandise. They figure they'll take a down payment from you………..say 4,000 and then they'll ship it to your addresss…..Ha! “not”

there are hundreds of ads like that.

By: SteveD

SteveD — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:17:35 +0000

I experienced the same thing. A year ago or so with cosmetic ads. I accidentally highlighted the page and saw some text that I could not see otherwise. I asked a friend to translate but it didn't make any sense. And Google doesn't translate Latin.. I've since seen it in the auto section.
Anybody know what it's about?

By: jew

jew — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:57:28 +0000

None of you know for sure. Here is the real reason there is gibberish popping up on craigslist. Aliens. You see bla bla bla red-herring discombobulation, bla bla bla straw man. Words make sentences, and words are made from letters. Since gibberish contains letters, it means craigslist is being invaded by aliens. See I proved it. Logic is fun if you just throw around words. Here is is a misused word that makes me cringe "im anxious to get home" really .. you feel anxious? no, you are eager .. now go kill yourself.

By: JON

JON — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:28:36 +0000

Well the reason the car is priced so cheap is it is a stolen ad off another site. They post it cheap using pictures and a lot of the info in the real ad. Then when you contact them it's another wire me the money scam.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:21:16 +0000

I don’t know WTF Jake is talking about, but this is simply text put in by spam bots to trick the automatic spam detection algorithms used by CL. This might an email farming technique, or simply a red herring post to through the heuristic filters off the trail of actual spammer post.

If your wondering why the ad seems so real other than that, it’s because it is. CL spammers often use real post as templates for their own post.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:48:03 +0000

Actually you have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s some sort of error in a CL’s posting software application I think. I am out here trying to find out why Latin phrases are popping up in my postings and Iam certainely not trying to farm email accounts from people.

Just thought I would reply since I see an ignorant internet “know-it-all” posting about things he knows nothing about.

By: Xaviar

Xaviar — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:28:04 +0000

They're hot words/keys to boost the rating in search engines. The email address (9 out of 10, it was gmail wasn't it?) was just there to get your email address for later attempts at soliciting and to sell your email / personal info — which you would have to give to be “qualified” to get the car.

They do the same with job ads and others all the time. Now you know.

By: fff

fff — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:24:24 +0000

Thanks for that link! I still find it weird that the guy would include this in his post. Maybe he used a template and it was embedded there as an example. It makes me quiver a bit thinking about everything that could possibly happen in or to a car in 40 years time that you would have no clue about – wrecks, bodily injury, blood, suicide, death, growing-up, making-up, breaking-up, love-making, etc., etc.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:32:40 +0000

Many sites will have that gibberish latin as a filler text. You are supposed to delete it and fill it with your own. An explanation: http://www.lipsum.com/