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Mon, 12 May 2025 09:02:32 -0700
Andy from private IP, post #12642876
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C is for Crazy-- and Craigslist
I wanted to share a legit scary experience on Craigslist a while back when I posted a lawyer job at my law firm. There was one "applicant" whose email and c.v.
stated it was from a particular state official. I Googled her and saw that she is general counsel to Cal-Fire, which is a state agency in California. So far,
all normal, although I thought it was unusual that someone that high would be looking to switch careers and start at my law firm. I started reading the c.v.
and the first couple pages still seemed normal-- until I read the accompanying cover letter. It was written in the first person as the applicant, however, it
said things like (paraphrasing from memory) "My name is [redacted] and I love Jew-loving pedophiles who adopt 13 year-old Filipinos and use them as sex slaves."
And there was a photo of a teen being molested. What the actual fuck. I looked more closely at the email headers and determined that the email came from an
anonymous email service.
I reached out to the real person and told her she has a stalker who is into CSAM, and to contact the FBI. Her colleague reached out to me and said they were a
lot of these emails sent out, and they were working with law enforcement on it.
I reached out a year later and they said they apparently had enough evidence against this person, which is why I wasn't contacted by law enforcement. No idea
what happened, but I'm really curious.
What a crazy world we live in.
I got an equally bizarre application for a different opportunity through Craigslist, and this one contained things like "I refused to get the vax because I'm
basically a self-taught virologist-- I analyzed the code of the spike protein of COVID-19 and determined it was identical to HIV. So I got fired from that job
and I would do the same thing over again on principle. I'm 6'2 and play a mean game of pool when I'm not cooking for my dog."
I deleted the Craigslist ad after that one came in. I don't plan to use that platform again, for this and other reasons.
Mon, 12 May 2025 10:01:25 -0700
phosita from private IP
Reply #12762084
Two quick thoughts on this.
(1) the CalFire c.v. was obviously barking mad insane impersonation. But imagine if it were only, like, slightly crazy and not the sort of stuff to trigger law
enforement, but still sufficient for you to tell everyone you know that such-and-such person is a no-goodnik and should be blacklisted. Toned down, I mean.
And not everyone is sufficiently polymathematical to sleuth the headers. This could be a decently effective smear campaign aimed at harming the employability
of Certain People. Could even be scaled reasonably easily ("hey [AI bot] please find the salient facts about xyz officials in California Gov. and write cover
letters for me as if those people are all furries.")
(2) wjw craigslist in early 2000s NYC was just so incredibly wild. Honestly? Kinda miss it.
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