Crime & Safety

Craigslist Prank Sexes Up This Ex's Cell Phone

A flood of nude male photos leads Tinley Park man to find his phone number posted on a Craigslist sex ad without his permission.

After erotic photos, texts and overtures for sex flooded a 20-year-old Tinley Park man's cell phone this week, he realized his number had been posted on Craigslist.

The man told police that between about 9 a.m. and noon on Monday, he received sexually explicit text messages, phone calls and photographs on his phone, according to the police report.

"(He) said that all of the pictures were of naked men and the texts and phone calls were from men," the report said.

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One mysterious caller said he was responding to the victim's Craigslist advertisement, but the victim said he didn't post an ad. He received a link to the posting and when he clicked on it, he realized that it included his cell phone number.

The victim said he suspected a 23-year-old peer was to blame for posting the cell phone number because he said he had once dated the peer's current girlfriend.

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