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I have never had this problem on Craigslist before. I never had an actual account with them I just posted. Just the other day I posted to a "services" section, they asked me to phone verify. I gave my home phone #. I verified. Ad was posted. The next day I attempted to do the same thing, and I got the error: this # is already linked to another account. Well what account would that be, as it was just me, from the same IP, using the SAME email, not logged in on any account because I had none. So I actually go and create a password, still won't let me use my #.
I read one person said to ask for password reset and this may jar the system so you can use your # again. Didn't work. I emailed craigslist and all they did was repeat their canned explanation from the help page. Now I did post more than one ad in a services section in less than 24 hours, and later learned that any post you phone verify for, you can only post once every 48 hours, so I broke this rule but they did let the ads through. So could this just be a temporary lockout, or did this "error" occur cause they thought I was spamming so they've now made it impossible for me to use my #? Anyone have any experience with this?
Someone you know (as they have to have had access to your phone to get the confirmation code CL sends, and activate their account), has used your phone number within the last 90 days.
You can either wait 90 days +/- and try again, or acquire a new phone number via magic jack, pinger, line2, or any of the other cheap or free services out there (just know that it may take a few tries as a LOT of spammers do this, so numerous phone numbers end up being black listed -- Magic Jack is your best bet).
Craigslist's forums (including their help desk) are pretty awful and should be avoided like the plague.
I have a prepaid cell phone. My old phone was given to a aquaitence. They had used Bluetooth to transfer my contacts to new phone. I was never given opportunity to reset old phone to factory reset. I have had contacts that I do not know as well as s CL email account show up in my contacts list. How can i find out what information if any is being used of mine? If there is any illegal activity going on under my identity? How to find out if they access my phone, or do anything through my phone like place calls, online activity, get into my accounts, etc.
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