So nobody gets suspicious at the fact that they never meet the person they are renting from, never enter the building, and never recieve a key? They just write a check and mail it out to some Nigerian. Some people are just begging to be robbed.

For the record though, I think that if Craigslist really cared about their customers they would just block any Nigerian IP from accessing their site and posting ads in the US.

How can you be so ignorant? Do you think that everyone in Nigeria is a scammer? What if someone from there was looking for an apartment to rent before they move to the US?

I posted an ad on Craigslist for a room for rent. I ended up getting 18 cheques sent to me for more than the rent. The extra funds were to sent back by Western Union. All the cheques were phony and totally worthless. Motto of it is, never, never send money by Western Union to anyone you do not know, PERIOD!!!

I know that not everyone in Nigeria is a scam artist, but it is a major industry in that country. When you say the words "Nigerian Scam" everyone knows what you are talking about.

Frankly I don't care if they are looking for an apartment in the US. They post in EVERY US part of Craigslist. They pretend to sell merchandise, pretend they will buy merchandise, and attempt to illegally transfer funds. How many Nigerians have you actually heard of that actually used Craigslist to honestly find an apartment to move into?

All craigslist has to do is block them from posting and responding to the US sections of the site. I've seen their fake posts selling cars and when I tried to sell my laptop on craigslist I got 4 messages a day from Nigerian scam artists. They're a freaking plague that contributes nothing to society.

As I said in my original post, the people who fell for it are morons. Most people who get preyed on by Nigerians are morons. I just believe that craigslist should make an attempt to protect these morons instead of helping to line the Nigerian's pockets.

I've seen Nigerian scam artists in Dating Sites, car sellers, Rentals, even medicine contracts !!!

I won't say ALL Nigerians are a plague but definitely there is HUGE population of online scammers that originate from Nigeria.

Unfortunately, this isn;t very well known and more needs to be done to warn ALL online folks, regardless of nationality, of this Nigerian Menace.

Craigslist needs to block Nigerian IP addresses from accessing its site. That would put a stop to 99% of these scams, which can almost always be traced to Internet service providers in Lagos, Nigeria.