Hi folks, Just thought i'd give you a friendly piece of advice when selling your cars. This scam cost me €10k and I am now carless (well in the process of looking for a cheap enough run around). A friendly French chap called me on a Thursday about my car I was selling. We discussed pricing and the general state of the car, he said he'd be coming from Paris on Saturday and would prepare a bankers draft with his bank (cheque de banque) so that if the car suited him then we could do the paperwork there and then. SCAM - you cannot call the emitting bank to check the draft on a saturday. The man used FAKE ID (an official French ID card faked and had stolen another person's identity in the process - the photo was of the scammer). Beware of calling the number on the cheque - the scammers now use redirection systems to reply to your calls even and tell you that everything is fine with the cheque. My scammer got away with the car, insurance wants nothing to do with it because its my fault and the Gendarmerie "are doing their best". End of the day - only way to sell a car is during the week and do the transaction in a bank OR verify the bankers draft with the emitting bank on a week day. The other possibility is cash BUT again there are scams and beware that it is illegal to perform financial transactions in cash for cars over €4000 (i seem to remember). Hope you can all learn from the tough lesson i've had to learn. Neil (new to the forum but hoping to be around more often)