is this a scam?

I just posted a thread in the COT forum, and now I get this. Maybe I'm an easy traget or this deal is legit, I dunno. So I'm trying to sell my car and the day after posting the ad on autotrader I get a message saying a guy has a client and his client is interested in the car and he is from Spain. He said he wants the car and then I asked how he plans to make the transfer and all that and this is what he replied with:

"Michael,
I got your mail and the contents well understood, as i informed you in
my last mail,that we have a cashier check which is made out for the
order,but the amount on it is bigger than what you are supposed to be
paid.However,our client has instructed us to carry on with his check, that means that payment will get to you in cashier check of $16,500.00 which is a refund payment of a cancelled order earlier made by my client.So you are required to deduct cost of your car $8,750.00 when payment gets to you and refund balance $7,750.00 to my customer via western union money transfer for him to be able to offset shipping charges .
After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him,our agent will
come for the pick up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my
customer,while title papers and other necessary documets will be handed over
to my agent at the time of pick up.
Please Confirm this and provide name,address and phone number for check payment to be delivered to you via fedex courier .
Thanks and God bless,
JERRY..
"



So I don't know what to do. Not even a couple of days ago people were calling me telling me I won a grant and they tried to get my checking information from me so I'm being a lil more paranoid now adays.

give them the addy and # to ur job and have it sent there....

but does sound a lil odd

Its a scam. There is a similair one going around for paintball guns. They will take the car and then if you cash it you will have to pay $16,000. I will pm you some more details.

Its a scam. There is a similair one going around for paintball guns. They will take the car and then if you cash it you will have to pay $16,000. I will pm you some more details.


hey thanks alot. I knew it was fishy that like the same day I put the ad out he contacted me. and he had a yahoo adress. and somebody else from another agency sent me a similar notice, and both used the same wierd font. Alls i could find were buyer scams and not any seller scams. I finally found something on autotrader.com and it said to watch out for something like this, but I could not imagine what would happen if i took the check and it went through.

To anyone out there who wants to know more information about this scam check out these links

Story (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/01/eveningnews/main527883.shtml)

message board (http://www.classicsandcustoms.com/discussion/detail.asp?1=1&postID=2012)

Those bastards put Victor Tom as the name on the fake check..as in Vic Tom or "victim"