What's with all the spam?

It's spam ...

Very prevelant on the NY,NJ craigslist. 10% of all ads are spam. I once saw a great double cab, bay, pickup for $6500. I even got permission to buy it from the powers that be. Replied with contact info. Started googling double cab pickups and found the EXACT same bus, ad, etc. had just sold in the PNW for 16500. Most of these are automated spam designed I guess to gather personal information from unsuspecting people.

I don't think there is much that can be done about these. The more common ones have no visible text just an image with all of the information. They must have invisble text or tags that are triggering the rss criteria. If its too good to be true....