At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks. A fancy china set. A collectible action figure. But there was odd lingo slipped into the otherwise mundane posts.

Classified ad posting website Craigslist filed a federal lawsuit Friday against San Francisco online automobile marketplace Instamotor, alleging that it scraped Craigslist for car ads and ...

Selling your car online should be simple. Lately, though, more sellers are running into fake "vehicle report" demands from so-called buyers. The pitch looks routine, yet it leads straight to a payment ...

The decline of newspaper print classifieds and the ripple effects that gutted newsrooms began, by many accounts, in 1995. That’s when Craig Newmark invented Craigslist, the homely but oh-so-successful ...

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