Does this sound like a scam?

100% scam.

There is no truck for sale. There are stolen pictures of someone else's truck.

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 "car shipping company"or "Amazon Payments" and will demand you pay for shipping fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Or the scammer will want you to "prove" you have the funds by sending cash to a friend and sending him the MTCN#. The scammer then uses the MTCN# to pick up your cash and disappear.

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 partial 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 "Craigslist car seller scam", "fake truck sale scam Western Union", "fake car shipping company scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

Typical Nigerian scam

How many oceanographers are there in the world to begin with, let alone with cars to sell? Here are over 100,000 hits when you Google Car Scam Oceanographer -- that's how common this is

https://www.google.com/search?q=car+scam+oceanogra...

NEVER agree to buy any car that you cannot see in person, test drive, have the mechanic of your choice inspect AND verify in person that the seller's ID is the same name as on the title. If you can't do all of them, you are being scammed. There is either no car like in this case, you are buying a lemon that needs $3000+ worth of work, or you are buying a stolen car

It does seem a little low, give the seller a call and ask if you can check it out, if they don't give you their number, it's a scam.

Last year I was looking for a new car, and had my eye on a Nissan pathfinder for £5k, rung up the seller, they said they wanted to communicate only through e-mail, a week later I got an e-mail from autotrader saying the seller was a scammer.

Fishy

I just received the same exact e mail word for word I live in western Colorado and I googled the vin # and found your post !! SCAM FOR SURE !!!

This is a complete SCAM. 100% fraud.

Go back to Craigslist where you probably found this ad (99.8% of these ads originate on Craigslist) and do yourself a huge favor.

READ THE FRAUD WARNINGS.!!!

Not only does it SOUND like a scam -- it IS a scam, a very common scam. Guess everyone hasn't heard about it.

go and take a look at it in person before you commit to anything.

Itd a scam. Run from it or you will lose your money.

I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.