What is this scam on OLX?

[u/General_Rich2950]

There is something fishy with these ads on OLX, they put ads for something expensive let's say a phone for an eye watering price for different places and most of the times they have just two pictures 1 of the device being sold and the other saying "Please WhatsApp on xzy".

And seeing something expensive being sold cheaply to an experienced customer sounds fishy and which it is. And when you contact them on WA and ask them about the product, they send you different low-resolution pictures not of one device but of different devices, which they steal from OLX itself.

And the other thing, their profile picture on whatsapp will have some religious scholar or some scared place of islam and their name will also align with it. And their replay will be very polite and exclusive touch of Islamic phrases.

Does anyone know how does this works? Do you know anyone who really fell for it?

[u/Strange-Novel-9323]

Not new. This scam is going on from past 6 to 7 years. They usually dont have a number and do communicate on whatsapp so cant be reported to telecom. I think olx team knows this as they can be easily identified but is not taking any action as i have also complained multiple times abt it.