It is a scam.
Sorry to burst your bubble but a truck like that will sell locally and not have to be shipped hundreds of miles away.
We saw one like that in Charlotte craigslist- a mother was selling her son’s Harley because he had been killed in combat and she couldn’t bear to see look at the bike everyday and be reminded of him being so happy. We knew it was a scam and emailed the person. We followed it through to the end when I emailed that my brother wanted to see it and, WOW, coincidentally was in the same city that the seller was!!! And he was a mechanic but his roommate was with the FBI and they could both be there shortly. They never responded. Also, we flagged the ad and it kept popping back up.
Also, you can google the name of the seller- you might find, like we did, dozens of ads using that same name all across the country.
—Sorry to burst your bubble but a truck like that will sell locally and not have to be shipped hundreds of miles away.—
No bubble burst. I declined before I posted this, if only because of the hassle even if it was legit. ;-)
And in that sentence you also nailed the first red flag I saw in the email. :-)
—Also, you can google the name of the seller...—
Excellent idea! BTW, I’ve noticed on this local site that there are a LOT of “really good deals” and almost every one has at least one comment below it that says “Scam”. They all have one thing in common: Either no phone number or the number is a fax machine somewhere.
In this case, the seller actually went to the trouble of becoming a member of the site (the only way you can create an ad), which added legitimacy to it, for me, anyway...