It could be 100% legitimate, but why start this process? It'll be much easier if you just dealt with someone locally. Scammers are clever these days, and you'll have an American-sounding fella on the phone speaking perfect English, calling you from a known local area code.
Girl who lives next door almost lost $3K last weekend this way. It was actually Western Union who decided not to wire the money because it sounded fishy, which saved her ass.
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