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What about this makes YOU think it isn't a scam?

Listen to your husband.

Listen to your husband! YES this is a scam! Anytime someone offers more information than needed or asked for (such as the long sob story about the child in a hospital) it is most likely a scam! A 2008 caddy would never sell so cheap! I don't care what lame story they came up with. They purposely used a sad sounding, tragic story to make people feel sorry for them and believe their lies!
Do not contact this person! When a car is priced way too low it either has serious problems with it OR it is a scam. In this case it is a scam. Also scammers are SUPER, OVERLY polite in their posts and emails. That is also a way to figure out it is a scam. Normal people do not post such overly nice sounding statements.

And the fact that they gave this whole LIE story about how they will use a trusted source like amazon payments is also a sign it is a scam! Amazon, paypal, and any 3rd party payment system is NOT secure and the scammers know this! So they convince people to use 3rd party services to collect payment because they find it easy to send fake payments to these companies or retrack the payments once you send your money or item to them.
Do NOT try to buy this fake car. There is no car. There is no real seller. It is a SCAM!

100% scam.

There is no car.

There are stolen pictures of someone else's car.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "Amazon Payments" and will demand you pay for "shipping costs", in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Amazon Payments does NOT send such emails, ever. Amazon Payments does NOT have escrow or money holding services like that scammer describes. Amazon Payments does NOT demand you send a tracking number before money is sent. EVER. No exceptions.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of cheap vehicles, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake car shipping scam", "western union car shipping fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.