Fake ads on Web site make woman a target

Amber didn’t invite men over to her apartment to fulfill a fantasy of being raped.

But she says someone else did.

The 20-year-old Atlanta woman was never raped or injured but said she got a steady flow of telephone calls, text messages and visits to her apartment on Sept. 19 — all from men who wanted to be part of a rape fantasy described in a Craigslist advertisement.

Some of the men showed up on her doorstep and “tried to enter the apartment,” the police report said.

“A few of them were creepy, just standing outside my door,” said Amber, whose last name The Atlanta Journal-Constitution decided not to publish.

Amber said she didn’t know what was happening until an hour or so into the barrage of calls, texts and visits. She said callers told her the ad said Amber “had a rape fantasy and had always wanted to simulate the act,” according to an Atlanta police report.

Amber said the ad reportedly went on to say that “she would be expecting people at her place and they should enter her apartment and begin the ‘rape.’ “

“At first, I was pretty livid,” said Amber, a cosmetology student who also works as a waitress. “It went from that to being completely scared. I was scared to death.”

Amber’s name, phone number and address were listed on the ad, she told police. She said she never saw the ad though she, her mother and others searched Craigslist for it. She thinks there were several different ads because some men called her by initials and others by her real name.

A Craigslist spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

Amber believes she knows who placed the fake ads and gave the person’s name to Atlanta police.

When reached Wednesday afternoon, Atlanta police spokesman Ron Campbell said in an e-mail that he could not provide an update until today.

Amber estimated that she received about a dozen calls, five visits and several text messages that night.