Thank you. The two things that popped out at me right away were that he used generic language regarding where it would be shipped to (he should have known my town) and at that price he might as well sell it to a used car lot locally and be done with it.
I’ve been waiting for these scams to get better with their english.
Interestingly, his Gmail account is a normal person’s name, as is the name on the Flickr account. It really “looks” legit except for the odd terms. And getting information about Google wallet regarding holding money, etc. is very difficult. I wouldn’t use it for anything at this point. It looks like it is almost set up as a portal for scams.
Actually, doing some more investigation, this scam is the same scam that has been running forever... Just with a new title.
You get a checkout message with a request to WESTERN UNION the funds to the authorized Google account specialist. That’s the whole deal - yet another Western Union scam to steal money. Your funds go to someone somewhere in the world, with zero recourse to get those funds back, or even find out WHERE they went.
It might even draw it out a bit - ‘the shipping company has your car and I’ll reimburse you for this, but they need another $800..’ before they disappear.