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I was responding to a ad on Craigslist in St Louis MO. I sent a message thru craigslist and got a response to provide my email for easier communication. I provided my email and got a response from a Dr. Mary Hanningan that's what I thought. The email contained that they lost there daughter and the boat they were selling was purchased by her. They also said they turned the boat over to a consignment company OMC to contact them about purchasing the boat. They provided me with the listing and all looked good so I put a purchase request in and the next day they sent a invoice saying the seller approved the price. They wanted money wired to a Bank of America account under Webers Auto LLC. So I look the place up and it said it was permanently closed. So I dug further into this and found that all the locations they have listed are other businesses or empty. So later that day I received a phone call from a Peter Evans wondering when I was going to send the money so they could ship the boat. I explained at that time I was not convinced this was legit that I had to think about it. He called me later that day and I explained that I would have to visit my bank branch to wire the money so I could buy some time to investigate further. The next morning I did a search for Webers Auto Scam and boom it came up as a scam with Oakbend Marina. I did further searching on there website and they had a 555 area code for the fax and the email address would not work. I replied a message at that point saying there are to many red flags and that I was not sending any money to cancel the order.