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Craigslist Accounts – A New Battle

Craigslist’s recent introduction of phone-verified accounts has made posting on CL more of a challenge than ever.

You can purchase phone verified accounts from a number of sources, but you must be careful: many sites use procedures can leave footprints behind which can cause CL to flag these accounts.

I recommend buying phone numbers yourself, and doing the account set-up manuaully ( vs buying completed accounts directly from a vendor)

Avoid Footprints (During Account Creation)

Actions that cause a “red-flag” to Craigslist during account creation are:

1.) Using the same CL password for each account created (and created one after another).
2.) Same IP used when creating accounts
3.) Activating a phone verified account and NOT using it within 48 hours.

All of the above create red-flags with Craigslist and the accounts can be at risk for deletion.

You need to make sure each account is as unique as possible by implementing the following 4 variations:

1.) Do not ever use the same password for each account
2.) Do not verify each account one after the other. This creates a pattern.
3.) DO try to post as each account is created.
4.) Use different IPs when creating each account.