Originally Posted by E55AMG

Scam. Had one recently on a cayman i was looking at. autotrader sent me to the ad becuase it was only a few miles from my zip code.

contacted the seller and low and behold, he "moved" due to business. wanted to use some bogus type of payment where I could use the car for 7 days and return it if i didn't like it.

Said he had moved to Prince Island Canada - I sent him an email saying "wow, that's great - my brother lives there. he can come look at the car". never heard from him again.

Originally Posted by bonehead

Ummm....read my first post, then read this one. I was pretty much spot on. Are you still doubting this is a scam?

Originally Posted by dianic

google it! "Car scam with escrow" or along those lines.

Here is an article form 2008 I believe.
http://www.justaskasa.com/wp/?p=1101

Originally Posted by dianic

and forum posts here
http://forum.escrow-fraud.com/viewtopic.php?t=1721


There is no such thing as a free lunch. If something sounds too good to be true, it is.

Tell him that since you are a Nigerian prince, you will send him 1,000,000 dollars, for him to keep the price of the car and return the rest...!

Originally Posted by carcommander

If you can take it to a dealer and get 20k more why would you sell it for that?