<prompt> Human: Hey guys,I posted a bit ago. I put my car up for sale on CL. I had two offers so far. One of the people said that he is an army officer who will be sending someone to pick up the car as he himself cannot make it. He said that he will pay via PayPal.Here is the content of our e-mail:Whats the condition ?Im just asking about it to know the condition of it, also no shipment involved as i have a mover that will come for it,im an Army officer , Im okay with the condition. , I can only pay you via one of the fastest and secure way to pay online PayPal because i dont bring my credit card aboard so i can only do online transfer from my account.. Do You Have A Verified PayPal account? Let me know asap so i can arrange the payment through PayPal. my shipper will be coming to pick it up as soon as the payment clears into your account,and it would be my pleasure buying this from you so i would ask some question before we go onWhy are you selling it?When have you been using it?whats your last asking price? Do you have an account with Paypal?Looking forward to read back from youBest RegardId appreciate any advice to help me make sure that whatever transactions that take place are valid and are not a scam.Thanks!  <response>: You may want to familiarize yourself with the kind of things scammers do which are red flags.They often claim to be somebody that people would consider trustworthy or respected. My wife got one from a god fearing Christian before when we were trying to rent a place out of state.They are much more willing to do stuff sight unseen than average people are.They usually make it sound like they are in a hurry to do stuff.They will pretty much always try to use stuff other than cash. Checks are very common here, but other stuff can be used as well.They usually try to weed out smart people. They expect that smart people will ignore emails with spelling mistakes. Smart people are more likely to waste their time and to involve law enforcement as well. By including spelling and punctuation mistakes in emails, they try to avoid dealing with smart people. Stupid people are theoretically more likely not to recognize errors and more likely to fall for these sorts of tricks.They will quite often try to appeal to your greed. They will promise to give you higher amounts than others will. They will appear willing to get ripped off by you, like giving you a higher amount than the KBB value of a car or something like that.They often want you to do stuff that doesnt sound logical. Maybe that is buying a car from you in America with the intent that it gets put on a boat and shipped to a foreign country. Its like 10k to do that. Whatever they are giving you plus 10k to ship it is way more than them just buying the car in whatever country they are in. Another example would be if they wanted to overpay you and have you give them some of the overpayment back with some strange rationale.Their end game is to get you to trust them and get you to accept a faux-payment for some sort of goodsservices. The payment will appear legitimate but never actually be legitimate.The goal in this instance looks to be to give you an amount in PayPal to get the car and then they immediately tell PayPal you didnt give them the car and that PayPal should take the money back from you. Now they then have the money and the car. They then withdraw the money before you can complain to PayPal and get it back for yourself.If you require that you receive money in cash and that you receive it in a very public location, then you greatly minimize the likelihood that scammers will play you. 