CL scams

DrewE wrote:

Naio wrote:

rexlion wrote:
If a CL ad has a super low price, I look at the contact info. Scammers will have an out of state area code or will have only the anonymous email contact. A genuine local seller will usually list their local phone number.

Gosh, I sell a fair amount of stuff on CL, but I would never list my phone number or email, for safety reasons!

what safety concerns do you have with people getting your email or telephone—I mean, it could lead to annoyance or even harassment, but unsafeness?

I had a stranger call me up once and compliment me on my house. He had run my phone number through a free online search service which gave him my address, and then google mapped it.

He was harmless, as far as I could tell, and just clueless about how this would seem. But it showed me that anyone can do the same.

For email, it's only spam that concerns me.