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Gunmen use a shopping app to lure man to Ozone Park and steal his cash: cops

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They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse — and would live to regret.

Cops are looking for two gunmen who used a shopping app to lure a man to Ozone Park on Friday morning and rob him of a bundle in cash.

Law enforcement sources said the robbery occurred just before 8:30 a.m. on March 17 in front of an apartment building on 88th Street just south of Liberty Avenue.

According to police, the suspects made contact with the 28-year-old male victim through the app OfferUp, a mobile marketplace that handled $14 billion in transactions last year. Customers use OfferUp as a classified to buy and sell all sorts of items including antiques, clothing, jewelry and even vehicles.

When the victim met with the suspects, police said, they displayed firearms and forcibly removed $1,700 in cash from him, then fled the scene in an unknown direction.

Officers from the 106th Precinct responded to the incident; the man was not injured.

Police described the suspects as black males with short hair. The investigation is ongoing.