I recently listed my wife’s car for sale on Autotrader. I was contacted by a prospective buyer via text message. I was immediately suspicious since I Googled the area code of the phone number and discovered it’s in Wyoming. I live in Michigan. I asked him to confirm his location. He explained he’s active military. And he’s buying the car for his father. And he would arrange to have the car picked up by a third party. Further would arrange payment through PayPal assuming I have an account (I do). I like to trust people. And I’m a fervent supporter of our military. But I see enough red flags to figure this is a fraud attempt. In fact I thought I just recently read of a fraud alert either posted on PayPal or somewhere describing a similar scam. Thoughts?
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