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I received an email from a man in Scotland wanting to buy my car. He said he had a reliable shipper and would pay by an American check. Does this sound for real? I know I should be skeptical! Has anyone had any dealings with foreign buyers?

Do it. Tell him you'll go Braveheart on his ass if he pulls anything funny.

I'd ask Ross. He's Scottish

The thing that will give away the scam is if he offers to pay you a lot more money than you're asking and then tells you that you can keep some extra as long as you send him the balance in a cashiers check or some other type of secured funds. Basically they write you a bogus stolen check, your bank cashes it for you since they don't know it's bad, you send out the car and the balance of the money based on the funds you thought were legit and you get left holding the bag.

However this is the first I've heard of it coming from Scotland. Mostly it's out of South Africa and such.

Rick

Should be a lot easier to check up on if its in Scotland too, I lived there for 20 of my years hehe