Log onto a site like Craigslist, stroke a few keys and you're shopping. But so are thieves and robbers looking to take advantage of a potentially easy target: you. NBC 6's Ari Odzer tells you where Boca Raton Police say you should make your Craigslist transactions.
Log onto a site like Craigslist, stroke a few keys and you're shopping. But so are thieves and robbers looking to take advantage of a potentially easy target: you.
"You have situations where someone's selling a product of some sort and the buyer is really a criminal looking to set up a situation where they can steal whatever the item is that's being sold at the time," explains Chief Dan Alexander of the Boca Raton Police Department.
That exact scenario happened to a U.S. marine in Pompano Beach three years ago, ambushed by gunmen as he tried to sell a gold chain.
Source: NBC6
