Not an hour passes after I post the rally car ad up, and I get the following E-mail:

From: mark james (mark12_james@yahoo.com)

Hello
Good day to you, i am mr john and was passing by adverts on internet just
saw that you want to sell car so i am very intrested in it and will like to
buy it i am a serious buyer and will like you to get back to me tell me
about the condition and then tell me how is works,the asking price and the
pics as well so that we can proceed on it.
Regards
james

Of course anyone with the least bit of Internet savvy would recognize this as the opening salvo of the well-known car-buying scam. As far as scammers go, this so called “Mark” or “James” or “John” was particularly lame as he neglects to even mention a single detail about my car.

I replied by offering to report him to the FBI.