People in Eve live to scam people. PvP is PvP whether you’re blowing up someone’s ship or cleaning out someone’s entire Corporate Assets. It’s all the same.
So how are characters sold? Surely that’s not the one and only time players are actually honest in this game is it? Transfer over 100B ISK and get a beautifully skilled up character just like that? You can’t write a contract for a username and password.
I mean, what are you going to do if you get scammed? Report it to CCP? You would be admitting to illegitimately purchasing an account, at which point yours would get flagged and banned.