There's a way to get around the phone requirement, too. I've seen this as far back as 2010.
You pay to post a fake job (something unskilled that will get a lot of applications) on a site like Simply Hired, Indeed, etc. Applicants come to your fake careers site. Applicants fill out the application for the non-existent job and are asked to input their phone number to verify their application.
When they input their phone number, the backend of the careers site submits that number to Craigslist. The applicant receives the call from Craigslist which reads them a number. The careers site instructs them to enter the number to confirm their application.
A few days later your site auto-emails the applicant saying that you're sorry, but the position has been filled. They forget about it and no suspicion has been raised.
For the price of posting a single job, you can get hundreds of phone-verified Craigslist accounts working.