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The 100 post reply test - w4m - 99
Reply to: pers-408718134@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-08-29, 1:39AM EDT
So i am guy who tested out these posts to see if they are real. I have replied to 100 posts in Casual Encounters. I wanted to see how many were fake or not. Now, there might be some who are not fake but decided not to reply and not sure what percentage that would be.
Here are the results.
- 100 post replied
- 81 responses
- 4 seems to be legitimate (or person at least): 1 successful online conversation / 3 email conversation (2 dudes)
- 58 immediate (with in 2 hours) automatic fake responses (porn sites)
- 19 delayed responses: the fake sites are getting smarter, they are sending out reply after a day
- 19 non-reply (i even got rejected from porn sites!!)
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Now, the porn spammers are moving in to Woman + Man section
I noticed that every 5th one seems to be fake.
How to spot a fake (generally speaking).
- the whole post is one giant paragraph
- girl who lists her measurements (but height)
- posting their pic (unless they are nuts or first timers on CL)
- subject line age does not match age listed in details
- the obvious location duplication or wrong location (wrong state!)
- posting timecode "meet up after 8pm" when the posting is at midnight
- saying the same old thing: sweet guy, hot chick, need sex now, nothing original
there are more but i cant remember them all.
Location: testing the posts
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