The other tip to verify the car exists if to ask the seller to take a video of him opening the passenger door while saying "Tommy Z, the car is real".
The loophole to this is that a scammer could ask the real owner to make the same video and then forward it to you. However, this request would probably eliminate 90% of scammers.
So, the way around this would be to additionally ask him to video his driver's license and title, and verify the names match.
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$267 fee for a $30k transaction
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