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Am I being scammed on craigslist?

I am selling my car on Craigslist and this seems a little strange to me. I received an E-mail from someone who is from the UK or Germany or somewhere(his email is ________@googlemail.com) although I am currently in Orange County, CA. Here is the Email verbatim: "Sounds great,am very happy to purchase the ITEM and make your payment today,please send me your information such asName,Address,City,State,Code and Phone # for me to make payment for the item today,I will love to handle the shipment myself via my shipper that is currently in US BAY area, I will make your payment via Certified check so let me have your address to send the Certified check The check will take 2-3days before you can receive it, so when you received the check kindly proceed to your Bank or any bank that is close to you to get the check deposit or cashed I will wait for you to confirm and clear the check.The payment will be in excess as i will want you to contact my shipper with the excess fund for shipping the item after you must have confirmed and cashed the check.i will wait for your bank to clear the check so you can deduct your own money and send the excess fund to the shipper Via Money gram money transfer so as to cover the cost of shipping the item from your place to it's destination. Is that okay by you? Get back to me asap. Thanks and God Bless"

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1. Sounds a little fishy to me.
2. Yes, its a very well known and very well publicized scam. Craigslist themselves warn you about this type of scam: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams