DETROIT (AP) -- The Michigan attorney general's office and Better Business Bureau are investigating an online scam using the name of a Waterford soldier whose remains were found last week in Iraq after a 14-month search.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report today a listing on Craigslist offered to sell a car owned by 19-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Byron J. Fouty. Someone who claimed to be Fouty's father, Mick, offered to sell a 2006 BMW M6 for $2,800.
Fouty's stepfather, Gordon Dibler, learned about it this week. He says Fouty never owned a car.
Bureau spokesman Tim Burns says officials are trying to track the source. The listing has been posted and removed, and changed e-mail addresses and domain names in an effort to avoid being traced.