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they'll send a bogus check and certified checks clear through your bank immediately automatically. Your bank account will go up by the amount of the check. When it gets returned a few days later to the issuing bank it will be flagged as bogus, and they will yank the amount out of your account and probably hit you for fees on top of that amount. but by that time, the car is presumably on it's way and the title signed over.
it's becoming a really common scam. I've seen it on a number of boards. Another version that's even more in depth is this: Say the selling price of the car is $3000. I don't know what it is really. They'll send you a check for $4000 and ask you to send the other $1000 onto another party. You'll deposit the $4000 check, see the balance in your account, and send out the $1000. Then a couple days later as described above, the $4000 check will be backed out of your account and you'll be stuck out the $1000 plus whatever fees they impose too. And they may or may not even make any attempt to get the car off you, because they've already scammed you for $1000.
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