Craigslist Fails to Flag Scam Rental Ads, Study Says

PCWorld: Craigslist has waged a long fight against scammers, but a new academic study suggests it’s been losing the battle. The study focused on listings for housing rentals, and found that the online listings service failed to remove a majority of those that were fraudulent. The researchers analyzed two million ads over a five-month period in 2014 and determined that Craigslist had flagged and removed fewer than half the listings that likely weren’t genuine.