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    Getting unwanted responses to my Craigslist Ad for my home childcare services

    Hello Ladies,
    I have recently posted an ad on craigslist and have only had unwanted responses from people who spam or fraudulent mail. When I created my Ad I placed my e-mail as visible not "hide" or "invisible" to make my Ad more legit. Since, I have had to shut down this e-mail and create a new one. What can I do to avoid many unwanted fraudulent e-mails to get into my inbox? So frustrating! Also, I noticed some of you work other jobs to keep income coming into your household. What jobs would be good and legit to look into that I can do for a few hours in the evening? Thanks for your help!

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    I posted on craigslist too and all i got was spam as well. I stick to Kijiji... I haven't had anything unwanted there.

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    I dont use Craigslist at all. I stay away from that site. Kijiji works best for me too.

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    I don't use Craigslist at all and only ever once used kijiji (got tired of everyone trying to barter for daycare services on kijiji) so now all my responses pretty much come from this site and word of mouth

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    I don't use craigslist either and only occassionally get spam from my kijiji ads.

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    Don't use craigslist for the same reasons. Never had anyone positive from there anyways.

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    Ya - I have never used Craigslist cause I have never heard anything 'good' about it ... and the fact the media portrays it as a place pedophiles and rapists use to scout victims does not help either

    Personally I do not publish my email address anywhere online ... my website says 'click here to contact me' and the word here is a link to being up an email box, on Kijiji you have to click respond to the ad for it to come up and so forth .... when you publish an email address online such as janedoe@hotmail.com there are bot programs people have whose sole purpose is to scour the internet seeking 'email addresses' and spamming them with email - it is not even a HUMAN doing it cause the program detects the @ and .com and goes from there on an autopilot to record the address and add it to the spam list
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    Strangely, nearly all of my website traffic comes from craigslist. I have never been spammed, but I do not put my email address on the ad as I have a website with a form submission for getting in touch with me.

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    Have not used Craigslist, as I haven't heard good things, either.

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    Criagslist has been horrible for me. Alll scams, and many. Will never post on there again.

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