Clsafe.org

Clsafe.org is yet another site pretending to offer the CraigslistSafe verification service. Someone posted a m4w ad on Craigslist and received this reply from "Elizabeth Babicke" (robynwhitfield55kk@yahoo.com):

hey I saw your ad and would love an occasional hookup partner.so get back to me.

After he replied to her, he received this message:

hi again are you free right now totalk?
i screen so do this for me and message me on there
securedate
cant stay on much longer though

talk to ya soon,
elizabeth

The securedate link in the message points to http://www.clsafe.org/profiles/elizzy.

The sign up form is contained inside a frame. When you look at the source code for the frame you see that it comes from sexxxxmatch.com, a porn site.

Again, there is no CraigslistSafe verification service. Clsafe.org is not a dating site, it's just a scam used to sign you up for porn sites and the scammer who owns clsafe.org gets a commission for each person he signs up. Anytime a site asks to use your credit card to verify your identity, it's a scam like this one.

Bumpdate.org, Greatdater.org, Prodater.org, Realtimedate.org

We've found some new dating verification scam sites very similar to the old site Livesafetoday.net which we got shut down.

The main site used for the scam is Greatdater.org. The other sites in the list just load the content from Greatdater.org in a frame. Once again, the scam here is that these are not real dating sites. They do not provide any dating service or verification service. There are no site members for you to meet. If you give these sites your credit card number to verify your identity, what will actually happen is that you will be signed up for porn sites. You can verify this by

Bumpdate.org
Greatdater.org
Prodater.org
Realtimedate.org

The ISP for Greatdater.org is Pacnet. If you would like to help get this site shut down, then forward your e-mail with a complaint to abuse.hk@pacnet.com.

UPDATE 3/16/11
The site Dailydater.org is also being used for this scam. It is yet another site that loads pages from Greaterdater.org. And as of now, Prodater.org and Realtimedate.org are loading content from various other scam sites.

Craigs-date-safety.org

The Jeni Saten scam has been moved to yet another server, Craigs-date-safety.org. The previous server that we reported that was being used for the scam, Craigslist-safe-dates.org is no longer active.

Craigs-date-safety.org is being hosted by Leaseweb.com. If you'd like to help get this site shut down, then forward the messages you received from Jeni/Jenni/Jenn along with the message headers to abuse@leaseweb.com. Instructions for finding email message headers are available at spamheaders.com. In your message, be sure to explain that craigs-date-safety.org is a known scam site. It might also help to provide links to these posts:

http://craigslistdatingscams.blogspot.com/2011/01/craigslistdatesafelycom.html
http://craigslistdatingscams.blogspot.com/2011/02/craigslist-date-safeorg.html

We're back! And we have a new blog!

Finally, our blog has been restored! It took more than two weeks, but here we are again. For those of you who don't know, this blog was flagged by Blogger's spam-prevention robots as being a possible spam blog. We received the following message when we logged in to our Blogger account on February 12th and tried viewing the blog.

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on February 12, 2011. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Luckily we had a backup of the blog saved on disk and we were able to create a mirror of it over at Wordpress. That blog is Craigslist Scams.

But even so, two weeks to have our blog restored is much too long of a wait as far as we're concerned. Also, there's the possibility that our blog might get flagged again. On the Blogger help forums there is someone who complained that this happened to him three times! A situation like that is just not acceptable, so we've decided that from now on, our Wordpress blog Craigslist Scams will be our primary blog and that this one will the backup. We will post are articles over at Craigslist Scams and also post them here, but we will no longer accept comments on this blog; all comments that you wish to make on any of the posts on this blog should be made on the matching posts over at Craigslist Scams.