>A while ago I put my wife's car for sale. One of the ads went of the local Craigs' list (for Miami). Within a week I received 4 emails of people interested. All four where Nigerian scammers. The first one was well written and only asked for details on the car. I answered and got a response that made me suspect something fishy when he said he could not come see it because he was out of town and wanted it for a friend in Canada. I told my wife to watch the next email as they will tell me that the'll give me more money in a fixed check they have and they want the difference returned to them. I missed the amount prediction by a couple of thousand.
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>My wife asked, "how did you know they would ask for this?" <g>

Ah, yes, another pernicious scam not just pertaining to Nigerians. There's a UK prog called "Watchdog" that featured this one a few months ago.

The other thing to watch for with Nigerian scams is that the email is always all in UPPER CASE