A Twisted Case of Cyberharassment

First came the phone calls: men, strangers, telling Barbara Goddard they’d seen her ad on Craigslist and were eager to come over for her promised “casual encounter.”

First came the phone calls: men, strangers, telling Barbara Goddard they’d seen her ad on Craigslist and were eager to come over for her promised “casual encounter.”Later that week, men started showing up at Goddard’s door in Reston, ready for an evening of random sex. “I’m here from Craigslist,” they’d say. “You’ve been set up,” Goddard would tell them. By that time, she’d figured out what was happening: Someone was posting offers in her name on online message boards, with her home address.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032102105.html

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