Why can't eBay identify fraudulent listings?

[stuffimadeinmyshed]

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It's common practice by fraudsters to list high value items at lower than market value, and to include two images. One of the item for sale, and the other is a black and white image with a message to contact them at an email address.

It would be trivial for eBay to run an algorithm against upload images, to identify these.

If someone's selling a motor vehicle and one of the images is 75% white and 25% black, it's a fraudulent listing.

It's not difficult.

If you look at high value motor vehicles, you see them all of the time.

I know the fraudsters would then adapt to this; but it takes low effort on eBay's part and they ought to want to stop fraud, surely?

[john1297576]

Easily said harder to do. Ebay's Robots can do only so much, they don't seem to have real people who can filter out the frauds.

If the Robots were let loose on all listings the results would be laughable, on several occasions I have had trouble listing an RAC Badge, I have to put the name in full because the Robots think the RAC is Racist. A badge with Crossed Swords is a lethal weapon as well.

Only humans can apply rules sensibly.

Of course most of these scams are obvious if buyers were not so gullible then there would be no risk to losing money. If they see instructions on a picture surely it should ring warning bells.