Scams are getting better...

[billh1963]

The other day a friend called to say pictures of my '72T were being used in a craigslist ad. I looked and sure enough they had gotten hold of some pictures I had posted on a forum and were listing it like their own.

The scary part is the person who wrote the ad knew English and the ad sounded like someone intelligent put it together. The used a phone number that was local for the area. The price listed was "Best Offer". So, there wasn't a stupidly low price that would make you suspect. I could see where some European buyer in their zeal to get a car could wire a deposit or post some form of payment and get burned.

My admonition is to not let desperation or greed get the best of you. Use due diligence!

[hillskier]

I had the same happen to me a year ago, although it was a 1994 Range Rover. Mine was 52k original miles which I had sold to a collector in Montana two years prior yet the ad was southern Cal. I called the number and asked when he bought it, told me he was the original owner, etc. etc. and when I explained to him that it had been mine, he hung up and the ad was deleted quite quickly. The ad was on Cars, Craigslist and Autotrader.

Either way, could not agree more with your statement....Due diligence.