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Originally Posted by red-beard

This is why you open up a separate bank account just to accept the wire transfer. We have this setup for our business, called a "Sweep" account. The funds hit the account, and then are automatically moved to our main account. There are never any funds actually in the sweep account.

Yeah, just gotta be careful, from what I understand the Nigerian scammers start asking for SSN and that sort of thing.

I know that Hugh sold his DB4 to a guy over in Arabia or something like that for big bucks, but I suspect it was more up front than.

Well, I'm from the states, but I'm not in the states, and I'm not buying this for myself, I'm buying it for a relative, and it's going to need to be shipped to a foreign country.

That just sounds too convoluted to me to not be a scam.