How do you go about buying a car on the other side of the country?

About a dozen years ago I sold my Lincoln Continental convertible on Ebay. A month or so later a buddy of mine emailed me to ask me how come I was listing the car again. Turns out some scammer had downloaded all my photos and my description, word for word, and was "selling" the car on another site.
Wow hear about that. Hope someone nailed his a**.