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Several other places report the same scam. You get a text saying "Freddy (or another name) said you were trying to sell your car too. Make sure u put it on classifiedride.com I sold mine on there last week and it was freee". Problem in my case is I was trying to sell a car on Craigslist (where I believe someone acting on behalf of classifiedride.com found my telephone #) and I know a guy named Freddy who buys and sells cars from auctions for a living and I****umed the message referred to him. It didn't. The number it came from was bogus. As soon as I listed my car on classifiedride.com (for the $30 upgrade fees), I received within an hour four of the typical scam emails (at 0100!) asking for Paypal account info so they could send me the money. The company number (800) 355-8312 gets you an automated recording in an endless loop saying "You have reached (inaudible) advisor hotline after business hours. Please leave your name, number and a brief message and we will respond to you on the next business day" without giving a chance to leave a message. But apparently if you hit ext 10 (which I got from googling the company and coming across a WSJ article) you get Troy to answer. Troy is I'm guessing Troy Martoccia with SMA Alliance who bought/spun off classifiedride.com as referred to in a prior Ripoff Report posting. When I asked him about the scam text, he admitted it cam at their direction and that it was a fundamental part of their marketing program. Wow.

same thing

Posted a car on Craig's List and got a text saying that Freddy said I'm trying to sell my car and I should list it on another site. Don't know a Freddy

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Same Text message from an unknown caller. Could be a bot so i dont even want to call it or they might s**** attacking from other numbers too. i attempted to keep my own number pretth save by c****ing ****es and altering the exact number.

Got the exact same text after posting an ad on Craigslist.

Got a text message after posting a craigslist ad from an unknown (to me) number that said: "Freddy said you were trying to sell your car too. Make sure u put it on classifiedride.com I sold mine on there last week and it was freee."

Got a text message after posting a craigslist ad from an unknown (to me) number that said: "Freddy said you were trying to sell your car too. Make sure u put it on classifiedride.com I sold mine on there last week and it was freee."

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