Rampant Scamming (Mirior, Darkness, etc)

I feel like there is a rampant issue with scammers on the trade site that needs to be addressed (AH time?!). I have been searching for a Morior Invictus for my build which will cost around 30 divs. Specifically %5 stats/ 10% All res per core. On multiple occasions, I would send someone a message for the item for them to replace the item with something worthless (Another morior with shit stats) and try to trade quickly before someone notices.

As an experienced player, I havent fallen for this scam thankfully, but I can see a lot of new players falling for this trick. With the influx of new players that may not be as aware, this will cause quite a problem. In fact, I believe that with the overwhelming amount of scam trades and price fixing on the site, its obviouly been working. Items are quite complicated and newer players may not even know that a single item could have vastly different mods on it.

I understand there is a new reporting feature but thats not nearly enough to protect your player base.

I think one of the following needs to happen at least before the game is known mostly for its scummy scammers and bad consumer protection which completely ruins the experience of new players.

1) Reporting scams on the trade site highlights and warns users of bad trading practices. ( I think the TFT browser addon had this feature in the past)
2) Users reported multiple times for scamming are temporarily banned or some sort of punishment/review.
3) Make an Auction house....

Although I havent been scammed, I have been spending a lot of time helping new players gear their characters, set up builds, explore endgame content and strategies, etc... It would be so sad to see all of these new players lose their hard earned currency for items they have been chasing. My experience with new players has been overwhelmingly wholesome, and I dont want to lose that because some asshole wants to scam a few divs.

GGG doesnt always get things right, but this is one thing they cant afford to get wrong any longer.

Cheers, exiles.

A "flagging" system on the trade site to highlight "scammers" is too abusable, a good example is TFT and how things work there.

The reporting system would end up the same IF GGG is not looking manually in every single report and then scammers would flood the system with countless "false" reports.

Yes. There is no way around the AH anymore. We are in 2025 and the player base is bigger - the scammers got more creative, this has to end.

While I was able to avoid a scam for thousands of hours, it was some work, annoying work and a core system like trade should be engaging and not a challenge.

At least Jonathan recognized that this change has to come, sadly, we don't know how long it will take GGG.