It's not fun, but the Internet has made all digitized data, whether it resides in personal, corporate, government, or institutional systems vulnerable to thieves from around the world. Short of creating an air barrier with an internal-only intranet system housing sensitive data and a separate Internet system with drives and ports locked down to prevent malicious data porting by an insider with dirty hands, sensitive personal information will never be completely free from access by hackers on the Internet, we're all vulnerable.
If you reside in the US and ever do experience the theft of your identity, the FTC website has excellent guidance on the steps you need to take to report to the credit bureaus as well as local and federal law enforcement. Craigslist verification does not work with most prepaid cell phones. I totally agree with you about identity theft.
It is a problem! But I don't see how phone verification can help. In essence, as a provider, my opinion is that phone verification is absolutely meaningless. Craigslist's phone verification policy created a situation where countless small businesses everywhere are blocked from posting their offerings.
If they can't post - they can't get business, and customers can't get service. So, that is why I chose to extend our services to any small business in need. If you're running around spamming Craigslist and we find out we're not going to sell you phone numbers, but if you are a legit business or individual - you're more than welcome!
I believe all of the prepaid cell phones now allow SMS text messaging. SMS text messaging should work on them. I'll agree that phone verification isn't very strong, but it's a starting point. Personally, I would like to see more stringent verification processes requiring human-to-human contact put in place in all online transactions involving purchases and none that are computer automated and easily hackable.
I know it would be an inconvenience, but identity theft is one of the hottest growing crimes and will continue to be an serious issue until security of personal data is taken seriously.
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Craigslist has implemented this system already back in March on the Erotic Section of the Services Category. Since implementation, traffic has gone down substantially. It won't surprise me if it also happens in the Services Category. I checked the Los Angeles side of Craigslist and noticed a change in the number of ads being posted on the small business section dropped big time Why did they implement this system? Because every Internet marketer, including the wannabees, were overposting their ads on Craigslist.
Some are posting over a thousand a day and most of them use automated posting software. I've seen tons of ads that went live in Los Angeles alone in the smal biz section - at least ads. I browsed through it and there were ads after ads after ads. It took me about six to seven pages to browse Wednesday's alone, so it really didn't surprised me that Craigslist would implement something like this. The impact of implementing this system could be serious and can go both ways.
Internet marketers for one who are depending on Craigslist to market their products will face a challenge of recovering potential income that could be lost due to this obstruction. Craigslist's Alexa ranking will definitely go down substantially and some internet marketers will look elsewhere for other free classified ads sites, like Backpage, Kijiji, and Inetgiant, to post their ads. I am affected by this change myself, but also I diversify the advertising of my products and services by using other methods like Adwords, Yahoo Search, EZines, blogs like this one , and social networking sites.
If you are affected by this change, you simply adjust your marketing strategy. Don't forget, you have to deal with your rivals.
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