Craigslist key word spamming/flagging?

[seo-hunter]

I really trust the MOZ communities opinions on this and would appreciate any help.

Our company has a competitor that puts our brand name in the majority of their craigslist ads. If you search craigslist for our product name, 80-90% of the results are this one company.

Can anyone recommend a REPUTABLE flagging service that can flag their ads that break the craigslist TOS by using keyword spam? I'm open to any and all suggestions.

[KeriMorgret]

Have you tried contacting abuse@craigslist.org? That's where to report things like this.

Flagging software and services would be a violation of their TOS as well (see Use at http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use).

[seo-hunter]

Thanks for the quick response.  Does this method typically work for these situations?

Not sure if this matters but just for scale we are talking maybe 50-100 ads per day being posted under different names through out the US.

[KeriMorgret]

I haven't used it for those purposes, but Craigslist would also want to know about that type of spam. If you're going to complain about a TOS violation, it's best that you not also violate their TOS.

Give them as much information as possible -- search queries that show the ads from the same person, how you identify it as the same person/entity, and make sure the queries don't have any false positives.