Q: apple pay scam

I am interested in purchasing a car on-line from a buyer who says to use applepay because I can post the money and he will 'arrange shipping' of the car (it is located in another state) so I can test drive it while the money stays in the account and if satisfied he will than have access to the funds when I "approve them". The e-mail came from apple-pay[AT]checkout-transactions.****. It does kinda sound like a deal too-good-to-be-true. Is this a scam?

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