We had a similar scam go on in my state a few years ago. The perpetrators went through the classifieds and Pennysaver articles, and contacted slews of people, gave them whatever they wanted in asking price for their vehicle. When they showed-up to pick-up the vehicle (bikes/cars/what have you)...they paid with a cashier's check with a fake name and even went to the trouble of manufacturing or having manufactured fake IDs. You think.."so what? when the show-up to re-register it somewhere, they're caught, right?" Well good thought. But what they did was drive the cars/bikes down-town or out of state and put super-low curb-side pricing on them or gave hard-luck stories to people on the street about how they needed money badly and had to sell their newly purchased vehicle. Told them that the car was still registered in the previous owners name, that they didn't have the money to have it re-registered, but could/would hand over the signed title when you gave them CASH (and they would only take cash). Police never cought the perpetrators. A friend of a friend lost his motorcycle like that and was never located (either never re-registered or chopped). Um...new addage; Seller beware (??). -Terry
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