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Please don't tie Facebook to logins on other sites. It excludes half the population of the US, more in other countries, and if you add a non Facebook option, the scammers will just use that.

Craiglist's solution is simple--their exhortations to only deal locally means that if I'm looking for a house or a car, I will see it before I give money. The scammers are aiming at people that ignore that rule.

Plenty of people buy and sell long distance on Craigslist, but that is really a caveat emptor situation outside of how the site is intended to be used.




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