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  Kevin McCallister (@realKevinP) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Shidokado1 That was terrible back then. I moved and struggled to find anyone who sold ****. Had to buy it off craigslist ads. lol terrible situations and tons of time wasted.

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  Kyle Hill (@TheUSMCRocks) reported 7 minutes ago

  Day 9 Watch out for these scams! Hi Everyone! Today we’re covering Real Estate and Rental Scams. Real Estate and Rental Scams Real estate-related scams (fake rentals, investment fraud, wire fraud in transactions, title fraud) caused $275.1 million in losses across 12,368 complaints in 2025 according to the FBI IC3 Report — up from $173.6 million across 9,359 complaints in 2024, a 58% increase. These losses often overlap with investment, BEC, and impersonation categories, and rental scams spike further in competitive housing markets. Common variants include fake rental listings on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Zillow, etc. (scammer 'owns' a property they don’t, collects deposits/first month’s rent, then vanishes or demands more). Another major type is wire fraud during home purchases or refinances—scammers compromise emails or spoof closing instructions to divert wire transfers to their accounts. Other types: Fake 'we buy houses' cash offers that lead to lowball or fraudulent contracts; foreclosure rescue scams; phony investment property deals or REITs; and title/deed fraud where criminals forge documents to steal equity or sell properties they don’t own. Social Engineering Tactics Scammers exploit the high stakes, emotion, and complexity of housing transactions, plus urgency in competitive markets. Here’s how: • Create Urgency: 'Act fast or lose the property,' 'other applicants are ready,' or pressure to wire funds same-day for 'closing.' • Impersonate Legitimate Parties: Pose as landlords, realtors, title companies, lenders, or sellers using fake listings, websites, and documents. • Exploit Research: Target specific listings, use real property details and photos from public records, and research victims' timelines. • Build False Trust: Professional photos, fake references, 'virtual tours,' or spoofed emails from lookalike domains. Stay Safe: For rentals: Never wire money or send gift cards for a property you haven’t seen in person or verified. Meet landlords in person and verify ownership. For purchases: Always verify wire instructions verbally with the title company/lender using a known phone number (not from the email). Tips to Avoid • For rentals: Insist on seeing the property in person, verify the landlord owns it (county property records search), and never pay via wire, gift cards, or crypto. Use official rental platforms with buyer/renter protection where possible. • For home purchases/refinances: Establish verbal verification of any last-minute changes to wiring instructions or payee details. Call the title company or lender using a number you look up independently. • Research any 'investment opportunity' or cash buyer thoroughly—check licenses, reviews, and use escrow/title services you choose. • Be wary of deals that seem too good (below-market rent or price with pressure to decide fast). • Use official sources for property records and work with licensed, reputable real estate professionals you verify. If You’re a Victim • Document everything: Listing screenshots, communications, payment proofs, property addresses, and any contracts or wire details. • Block the scammer and report the listing to the platform (Craigslist, Facebook, Zillow, etc.) immediately. • File a police report (especially important for rental deposits or wire fraud) and submit an IC3 report with full details. • Contact your bank or wire service immediately if money was sent—request recall/chargeback and provide police report. For wires, speed matters. • If it was a rental scam, also report to local housing authorities or consumer protection if in your area. For title/ownership issues, consult a real estate attorney quickly. • Monitor credit and consider a freeze if personal/financial info was shared. Wire fraud in real estate closings is often a BEC variant—report it as such to IC3 for priority handling. Check pics/reply/dm for help. @CagneyAvah @DianaPrinceAVAH

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  timothy get (@TimothyGet) reported 7 minutes ago

  Back in the day, when I was doing mid-tier / database web work, Indeed and the job boards, craigslist where the go-to places to get employed. When I lived in Orlando, I could walk downtown and knock on doors and get a coding job within a week. (usually a day) Somehow, a week became months....and now nothing. No problem... However , something else has changed. "The Corporate Environment" ? I frankly DO NOT WANT TO WORK FOR SUCH ******** EVER AGAIN. I will build my own business, even though I do not like "business" and work for God and His kingdom. This is rant is courtesy of my mailbox in-feed with lots of Indeed and Linked In nothing burgers...and do not get me started on the "Hello, Sar...This is SuryaPravda Oopta, I share this job with you that is nowhere in your resume" Then there was this dream job interview and it went well until the woman wet herself asking me, "So t What do you think about DIVERSITY!!!!!" This is a long way of saying that "Our Economy" is not here anymore. #DNWTWFSAEA

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  Easy Money (@NASLACS) reported 8 minutes ago

  @al_requiem How hard is it to get stuff from the lower 48? Maybe check marketplor Craigslist, buy it all down here and drive it home?

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  FeelGoodTales (@feelgoodtale) reported 9 minutes ago

  Almost five years ago, I started searching for a dog. I found a Craigslist post from a family rehoming their late father’s German Shepherds. He’d been a *******. The dogs needed homes. I went there for a specific female. But she was already gone. They introduced me to her sister — Sabrina. Thin, shut down, unsure of everything. Still, I couldn’t walk away. Something in her still reached for connection, even through fear. She came home with me that day. Now, she’s ten years old — but still acts like a pup. Loves the river. Hikes. Long naps in the sun. She’s everything I didn’t know I needed. I didn’t just rescue her. She met me where I was and pulled me forward.

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  Yersinio Pestis (@Yersinio_Pestis) reported 12 minutes ago

  Websites like this are why they all take 32 gas of ram. I would take a watered down Craigslist over this abomination any day.

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  casey (@Casey_AF) reported 13 minutes ago

  FB marketplace just isn’t built like Craigslist was 10-15 years ago. Mfs be like I’ll get back to you if this deal doesn’t work out. Brother it’s first to show up with cash answer my questions this mf didn’t put down a deposit.

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  PokeDon (@Pokedoncards) reported 19 minutes ago

  @BanesABucket @MK5Cards Yardsale treasures app, Craigslist, Facebook marketplace is a good place to start looking, my tip, drive down all the main roads Saturday morning at 6am and look for signs on telephone poles, uf it says starts at 8am, drive by, and ask for pokemon cards while they are setting up.

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  Padre Research (@padreresearch) reported 21 minutes ago

  I used to own a recording studio. So I've watched this movie before. Around 2010 everyone and their grandma bought an Mbox, a $40 condenser mic, and a cracked copy of Pro Tools. Suddenly they were "audio engineers" charging $5 per mix and master on Craigslist. Recording artists in untreated bedrooms with foam taped to the walls. People flocked to them because it was cheap and fast. The music sounded terrible but it was "out there" and that's all that mattered to them in the moment. It nearly destroyed the mixing industry. Studios that invested in real equipment, real acoustics, and real skill couldn't compete on price with someone working off a laptop on their bed. But eventually the market corrected. The bedroom engineers disappeared. The artists who wanted quality came back. The studios that survived were the ones that never lowered their standard to compete with the bottom. That's exactly what's happening in the research supply space right now. Vendors popping up overnight with no testing, no infrastructure, no compliance. Just a Telegram channel and the cheapest price. And people are flocking to them for the same reason. It's cheap and it's fast. But cheap and untested doesn't last. It never has. In any industry. The vendors who test properly, build real infrastructure, and treat this like a business will still be here when the dust settles. The $5 mix and masters won't. #Tuesday #Peptides #Music

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  EF Comix (@11975MHz) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Hikaru_Chansey Just $200! But the drive to go get it was about 400 miles roundtrip and I pulled that off on a worknight. I saw the ad for it on Craigslist and jumped in my car from Cleveland, drove down to the Ohio River and bought it, and got back to work the next morning. It's amazing, because my first memories are from Circus Circus as a toddler.

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 28 minutes ago

  Two action stars in Marvel's next billion dollar movie did their own stunts. The story is wild. Simu Liu got laid off from Deloitte 8 months in and spent the next few years as a stuntman. Channing Tatum was a stripper in Tampa at 18. Both of them took the hard road into Hollywood, so when the Shang-Chi vs. Gambit fight came up in Avengers: Doomsday, neither one would hand it to a double. Stunt doubles exist because of insurance math, not talent. A lead's face and hands are the collateral on a movie this size. One broken wrist and every other actor on an ensemble shoot sits idle while the schedule reshuffles, and the completion bond people price that risk in before a single frame is shot. The guy on the poster is supposed to stay in the trailer during the dangerous part. Both of these actors made their money on the other side of that trade. Liu answered a Craigslist ad for extras on Pacific Rim, then took the hits for a day rate on the Heroes Reborn stunt team in 2015, four years before Marvel cast him. Tatum's entire entry into Hollywood was that his body could do things on camera. When nobody would fund a movie about his stripping years, he and Soderbergh paid for Magic Mike themselves, $7M, and it grossed $167M. Tatum also waited 18 years for this fight. Cast as Gambit in 2006 for X-Men: The Last Stand, cut from the film. Solo movie announced in 2014, roughly 40 directors interviewed, killed in 2019 the moment Disney bought Fox. He finally got the coat for a cameo in 2024. Doomsday is the first time he gets a real fight with the character. Liu says the scene was painful to shoot. Of course it was. Every action star talks about doing their own stunts. Marvel hired a stuntman and a stripper, and they did.

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 31 minutes ago

  Drew Houston on the growth hacks Dropbox used to acquire millions of users Dropbox founder Drew Houston reflects the distribution challenge most startups face in the early days: “You can buy all the AdWords in the world but if nobody’s searching for what you’re making, you have a problem.” Drew eventually landed on a two-step solution to solve Dropbox’s cold start problem. Step 1: make a product that people really love to use. “Good engineering and good design are part of it, but one of the ways I think about it is maximizing the probability that your customer ends up with a solved problem. That’s why Craigslist — which was started in the 1990s and doesn’t appear to have been updated since the 1990s — is by far the most successful business of its kind. You show up at Craigslist and you leave with your concert tickets or your casual encounter or whatever you’re looking for. Even though the design isn’t that great and it isn’t that hard of an engineering problem, it was unbelievably successful . . . [Distribution] starts with a great product and all of the marketing or tricks in the world won’t help you push a rock uphill.” Step 2: give people tools to spread the word “Two things drove the vast majority of our signups today. The first was we created this incentive-referral program where if I tell you about Dropbox you get some extra storage and I get some extra storage, which gave us this kind of currency to work with and people were just doing it for its own sake. People weren’t even using the extra space. They were just referring their friends because they got points. We’d now call it a gamification mechanic, even though I’m not sure that word was even around back then.” Drew continues: “The other thing we did was create this idea of shared folders where if I’m working on a shared project at work or if I want to share photos with my family, then all these new users are brought into the fold just by using the product . . . Now there’s whole body of art and science on how to do that, how consumer internet companies grow, and how viral growth works, but these things were instrumental to how we got started.” Source: @ECorner (Jun 2012)

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  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 34 minutes ago

  That’s protocol control. I’m asking about economic control. They don’t need to control development, my node, or the miners to matter in a split. Miners will go where the money is. So if Wall Street controls a growing share of the capital, custody, ETFs, and liquidity, and Bitcoin splits, which side gets that money? I’ve been in Bitcoin since 2009. Back then, we had to guess what the damn thing was worth. We’d post on Craigslist and trade BTC for $25 so we could grab a quarter sack, or swap it for PC parts. Trust me, that loyal era of Bitcoiners is gone. When it comes down to it, they’ll go where the money is.

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  Katie-Squirrelett (@toolatekate_) reported 41 minutes ago

  @LE_Kay88 @lesstenny @purplepingers No Craigslist down under??? wtf?

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  seb-astian (@seb__design) reported 43 minutes ago

  imo we’ve been seeing ugly *** boring ui’s for years yes the main screen is bit unclear but it’s not because of the visual design language. it’s a structural issue imo change the layout and give elements a better visual hierarchy and it would work. the side bar is a good example. everything is clear and works well (bit worried about color accessibility for the texts tho) we all look back to when the web was more colorful and now that someone tries it gets shamed and ridiculed. choosing a bold and brutalist design for product design is a new challenge and it probably needs some work to really have top ux experience but also facebook and ig looked terrible at first until they improved their visual design so in that sense i think we just need to be brave and try new things. yes boring *** product design works but tbh i rather use a design like that for a personal dashboard or crypto wallet (maybe let me add customisation) rather than have a boring boilerplate design tho yeah it won’t be for everyone. and as a compromise you could just add a toggle. so yeah i’d love to see more brutalistic bold product design. let’s not be stuck with what we always did just cause it worked (craigslist worked too but was ugly as hell haha)