Spam Advertisements in QL Classifieds
This post is related to "spam advert" dated 27-05-2009 (link: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/526772)
There are lots of spam ads popping up now a days at Qatar living classified section and needs to be controlled in order to persist QL, the best place for trustworthy as usual.
The spam ads can be easily spotted by two means:
1) The price of item is impossibly LOW
2) the name implies something non recognizable like keghttysnc803, iubetrhcsb389, etc
3) There would be no local phone number but only e-mail
If QL moderator would keep the "Local contact phone number" field as a mandatory, i think the spam ads could be bit controlled.
QLfan, you might be comfortable with posting your number all over the internet. Some others might not. Some other might not want to be bothered with 100's of calls through out the day. So, your solution to the problem is just impractical.
There have been many posts like yours. Just search.
Like tallg said, just flag it as scam. If you are naive enough to fall for it, then you'd be better off not using the internet.
You can click the 'flag as scam/spam' link if you see a spam/scan advert.
Couldn't anyone enter what appeared to be a local phone number, or do the mods actually ring the number to check?