Hyper bricks hyper trading company does not exist

I made an enquiry about bricks online. Hyper bricks responded and claimed to have the bricks in stock. THey sent a quote. I asked for directions to the site so that i can confir mthe brick and get a sample for the builder. When i arrived at the site, it turend out that Hyper Trading was a **** - the company does not exist. The person uses address of a legitimate company doing bricks. I was informed that some people have been conned out of their monies by this person. Apparently, the person asks persons t odeposite money into some bank account, then meets with the customer somewhere to 'confirm' the sale and then dissappears. I was lucky that i went to confirm - apparently a lot of people have not been