Never accept any payment which does not exactly equal your selling price. Not for any reason no matter how compelling or "profitable" for you.

Shipping and/or other payments to third parties are NOT your responsiblity. Further they are an extremely bad idea!

Use the internet to develop leads to sell your car, but sell it to someone in your local area. Never, never sell to someone who wants you to ship your car to them!

Remember under Federal Banking Regulations a bank must make funds you deposit available to you on a specified time schedule. ie: if you deposit a cashiers check in your account the bank must let you withdraw cash the same or next day! That is completely different from the funds actually clearing! It is completely possible (and likely) that days or weeks later a forged cashiers check will "bounce" and the entire amount of the check (and probably a service charge as well) will be deducted from your account (leaving you with a negative balance in many cases)!

When ever depositing a payment in your bank make sure you are extremely clear on differences between funds availablity and possibilities of the transaction being reversed. Never accept that because your bank will give you cash that the payment is good!

When ever selling your car to anyone you don't personally know make sure someone you select (your bank, your attorney, etc) holds the title in escrow until there is absolutely no possiblity of the payment transaction being reversed. That is likely to be many weeks if not longer.

Remember, people in foreign countries have no problem purchasing most any car they want. There is no reason for them to buy yours and pay thousands in shipping too. There is nothing THAT special about your car. No matter what they say.

Remember, someone actually interested in your car will want to look at it and have real questions about it.

Remember, those perpetrating the car purchase scams have nothing else to do buy try and weasel money from you. They have little risk (The Nigerian Embassy basically blames the victims). They have all day to make up excuses for every objection you may have.

Remember, from the sample letters one of them negociated a $45,000 price I emailed them down to $40,000. The only problem is I was only asking $16,000 on the web! They are simply emailing looking for a sucker and the car is the least of their concern, who they are emailing or any of the details are completely irrelevent.

Remember, no one purchasing a car will desire that you keep the transaction secret!

Remember, the emails, schemes, etc evolve over time so you can expect new soliciations and new ways to get your money (and maybe your car) will show up in your email.