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Jost got home again from an exhausting day. A quick reply to the latest posts before going to bed...
Mike80911: the more i think of it, the more i realise that i should have asked here for someone who was willing to have a look at the car. The biggest reason not to was that this ad had no signs of a scam to me at the time which is why i just went for it.
jim2: that sounds like a good method for having situations like this resolved. It would be awesome if that would be applicable in my case but unfortunately texas is not part of canada as you know. And a scammer knows this as well probably which is why they wouldn't choose a canadian bank i guess. Anyway, first thing on my list tomorrow morning is going to my bank. I also found out now that there is a belgian department of the bank of america which i will be giving a call as well.
1990C4S: i'm afraid you are right. The one thing i don't understand is that when wiring money to the US, we need to make sure the name of the beneficiary is spelled correctly. When wiring, somewhere along the route this is checked with the account number for in case someone uses a false name. That must mean the owner of the account probably used a false ID card or it was indeed a Stewart/Stuart Diamond... He might have sent Stewart to me while it actually is Stuart. A bank may cause this 'error' as a matter of misunderstanding.
LeeH: do you mean if the account number i received was indeed a BoA account number? If so, yes, it was. When passing the sellers bank data to my bank for the payment, i only had an account number, a SWIFT code (which corresponds to the BoA) and an owner's name and address (which where high likely false). Also, when speaking to one of he supervisors, i passed this account number to her and she checked the number, never telling me this was a BoA account. She just couldn't tell me any info about the wirement because of the secret policy they handle.
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