Selling my daily driver, am I being scammed?

[SVORay]

he even said "God Bless". How can he be a scammer?? nahhhhh..

Id go ahead with it and never cash the check.. LOL. just to piss him off

Or turn the check over to the cops.

 

[SVORay]

Scam. But he's not interested in the car. You'll never see the guy, and you'll still have your car, but you'll be $8,000 in the hole. He will give you a legitmate looking cashier's check, which will clear immediately as such. You will have access to the cash immediately and you'll wire the $8,000 difference to this terrorist. A few days later your bank will find out that the cashier's check was no good and take the money back. But you've already wired $8,000 to this guy, which you are now responsible for.

Jim

I got to thinking about this and wonder how this scam works. I've heard it over and over again so someone must fall for it. The deal is, how do you get by the banks. I've deposited a handfull of 20k checks through out the years and they hold the checks for 10 days. In that 10 days they investigate them etc. They told me they do it on anything starting at 10k and up.

 

[Westside500]

I've put my daily driver up for sale. see it here:
Cars For Sale: Car Details - AutoTrader.com

I'm selling to buy a 84-87 t type driver (hopefully one of the t types on this board that I've got my eye on).
anyways, I've just listed it, and I got a email from this guy asking some questions, I responded (as you'll see in the attachment), and he responded saying he'll buy it, I've not replied yet. I've attached the emails he sent. Does this sound like a scam of some sorts? Or should I go ahead and give him my name and address and see if he sends the check?

Stay away!.. this is a SCAM! I had this same email from this jackass years ago on a couple of cars I sold...

 

[turbojimmy]

I got to thinking about this and wonder how this scam works. I've heard it over and over again so someone must fall for it. The deal is, how do you get by the banks. I've deposited a handfull of 20k checks through out the years and they hold the checks for 10 days. In that 10 days they investigate them etc. They told me they do it on anything starting at 10k and up.

I dunno. Maybe it's you're bank's policy? It's fresh in my mind because a local animal rescue almost got sucked in this week. It was in the paper. A donor called and said he was going to send a bunch of money. The people that run the organization were ecstatic to recieve a cashiers check for $10,000. They immediately cashed it and picked up 11 dogs that were scheduled for euthanization. The donor's 'secretary' called and said they had accidentally made the check out for $10,000 and it should have been $6,500 and could they please wire $3,500 back. Happy to have even $6,500 they agreed to do it, but got suspicious first. Luckily they didn't wire the money because a few days later they found out the check was no good. Now they're stuck with the cost of keeping an additional 11 dogs, but at least they're not out the cash.

Jim