I am naive. Am I being scammed?

100% scam.

There is no potential renter.

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 "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPs/FedEx billing account number and send the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "shipping company". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for all their money you sent to an overseas criminal.

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.

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 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 and the emails themselves 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.

Well, there are countless ways they could be trying to scam you.

Perhaps the most common is the "advance fee" scam. This is when they send you a check for more than the amount due, and ask you to send them a money order for the difference. By the time you discover that the check they sent you was forged, they are long gone.

Be careful.

You've already asked this question, and received many answers. Again, you should not, under any circumstances have let the car or the title leave your hands unless the title was correctly filled out and/or notarized (depends on local laws). This lady has your car and the title and tags are in your name. You may have been scammed, but you got the money. Now you have to get that vehicle out of your name.

When you cash the check, they can get your account info from the check receipt. Make sure it is a Money Order as they get nothing back from it. Take it to the counter at your Bank and have them put a hold on it until funds are verified to prevent fraudulent check charges.

Yes, that is definitely a scam. People have lost large amounts of money that way. Do not reply to these scam artists.

If they want to put down a deposit and not see the place first something is up.

Don't do it. This doesn't sound trustworthy, honestly. I wouldn't trust those women.. Worst scenario, they might even be women. They could be guys. But still, I wouldn't trust anything from that website.