The Michigan attorney general's office and Better Business Bureau are investigating a Craigslist scam which involved the alleged selling of a 2006 BMW M6 for $2,800, supposedly owned by  19-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Byron J. Fouty of Waterford, Mich., who was found dead in Iraq last week after he was missing in action for more than a year.

The seller posed as Mick Fouty, father of the fallen soldier, and posted photos of the car and Fouty in his military uniform. A friend of the surviving family of Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., whose remains were found with Fouty's last week in an Iraqi village, saw the Craigslist ad and alerted Fouty's family.

The slain soldier, whose funeral will take place Friday in Texas, never owned a car. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday ordered that all flags be lowered in honor of Fouty on Tuesday.

The crook who posed as his father asked buyers to wire money to a fictional escrow company. Tim Burns, spokesman for the Better Business Bureau of Detroit, told Detroit News that he suspects some people may have actually wired money to the seller, due to the sheer call volume triggered by the ad.

Fouty's remains were found, together with those of Sgt. Alex Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., on July 9 in the Iraqi village of Jurf as Sakhr.