Craigslist: Study Finds 29,000 Scam Housing Listings

Washington Square News: A research team at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering recently performed a study that investigated Craigslist’s failure to identify and remove up to half of its entries in a timely manner. According to the team’s research paper, 29,000 out of two million listings on the site are actually scams. The study aimed to quantify the rental scam issue and also analyze the various types of scams on Craigslist.