I agree with you. While these site may have started off with great intentions of providing a free service for people to post classified ads, the scammers will use the fact that the service is free to THEIR advantage also.
That is why so many of the scammers email addresses are from places where you can set up a free email account . . . they don't want to spend money to make their money. The bad part about this (for people trying to fight the scams) is that there is no way to regulate/stop them. You can report that they are using the email account for criminal activity, and the server may turn off the account, but the scammer can set up another account in 5 minutes and start their business back up again.
I wish that there was a way that once they find out that an account is being used for criminal activity they could BLOCK THE IP ADDRESS, that way the scammer could not just set up a new email account because it would still be coming from the same IP address . . . of course even that would have it's down sides because I am sure that they would not be allowed to block IP addresses that have public access, like the ones in cyber cafes, but it would probably cut things down somewhat.
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