{"id":34942,"date":"2011-07-27T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=34942"},"modified":"2016-06-06T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:13:32","slug":"craigslist-still-hates-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/craigslist-still-hates-voip\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigslist Still Hates VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a02008\u00a0VoIP Insider post discussed Craigslist&#8217;s insistance that\u00a0<a title=\"Craigslist hates VoIP, Prepaid Cellular, Spammers\u2026.\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/craigslist-hates-voip-prepaid-cellular-spammers\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'VoIP users are up to no good');\">VoIP users are up to no good<\/a>.\u00a0 The\u00a0telephone verification process to authenticate Craigslist ads\u00a0resulted in\u00a0VoIP and pre-paid cell users\u00a0being blocked.\u00a0\u00a0Presumably because those numbers can be changed frequently resulting in spam.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, <a title=\"Internet a Necessity, VoIP Use Increases\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/internet-a-necessity-voip-use-increases\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'VoIP use has only increased');\">VoIP use has only increased<\/a>\u00a0making roundabout methods such as phone verified account (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_5788883_pass-craigslist-phone-verification.html\" target=\"_blank\">PVA<\/a>) stores even more popular hence the latest lawsuit:\u00a0<em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/domainnamewire.com\/2011\/07\/22\/craigslist-sues-sellers-of-phone-verified-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Craigslist Sues Sellers of Phone Verified Accounts, Fights Posting Spam<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Craiglist maintains that these types of services &#8220;make it easier for people to submit automated postings to Craiglist&#8221; by circumventing their spam protection features.<\/p>\n<p>Twarting spam is a worthy endeavor but Craigslist will have to recognize VoIP users at some point as the VoIP technology\u00a0adoption rate continues its <a title=\"VoIP - Fastest Growing Industry in U.S.\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/voip-fastest-growing-industry\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'fast paced\u00a0growth');\">fast paced\u00a0growth<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to say Craigslist isn&#8217;t using VoIP to save a buck just like the rest of us and to take\u00a0a quote from my colleague&#8217;s post years ago\u00a0about their own <a title=\"Craigslist hates VoIP, Prepaid Cellular, Spammers\u2026.\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/craigslist-hates-voip-prepaid-cellular-spammers\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'automated outbound verification calls');\">automated outbound verification calls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would not be surprised to learn that the provider was leveraging VoIP to send these very same outbound verification calls. Now wouldn\u2019t that be ironic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a02008\u00a0VoIP Insider post discussed Craigslist&#8217;s insistance that\u00a0VoIP users are up to no good.\u00a0 The\u00a0telephone verification process to authenticate Craigslist ads\u00a0resulted in\u00a0VoIP and pre-paid cell users\u00a0being blocked.\u00a0\u00a0Presumably because those numbers can be changed frequently resulting in spam. Since then, VoIP use has only increased\u00a0making roundabout methods such as phone verified account (PVA) stores even more popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177013,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34942\/revisions\/177013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}