Alfredo Stranieri (born 30 July 1956 in Italy, naturalized in 1982), known as the "Classified Ads Killer", is an Italian-born French criminal and serial killer, who met his victims through classified ads in which he presented himself as a potential buyer of properties or used cars.
He would kill his victims and appropriate their property.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment together with a minimum sentence of 22 years on 28 February 2003 for four murders and one unsuccessful attempted murder.
Stranieri had appropriated the property of the two couples he had murdered to use it in fraudulent activities, also trying to kill a man who wanted to sell him a Jaguar.