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my on line purchasers would LIE and pretend to be every day Joe with a bunch of bucks to spend....
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And your guys would spend a bunch of bucks, and get a bunch of guns, without getting the sellers to break any laws. If the task is to catch people selling guns in violation of the law, that's not the way to go about it.
Take a look at what the law actually says, and remember it was written in a slightly less paranoid era than the present. The law does not require the seller to see proof the buyer is not a prohibited person. Indeed such proof cannot exist, only the opposite.
So long as the seller does not "know or reasonably believe", they are selling to a prohibited person, they aren't breaking the law. The lying buyer is, but the seller is not, as absent proof or a reasonable suspicion, the assumption is the buyer is not a prohibited person.
That's why agents had to drop hints /or outright tell the sellers they were prohibited, otherwise there would be no crime to charge the seller with, had the sale gone through.