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Increasing Bids on own players by bidding yourself?

I was trying to buy a player to strengthen my roster but got outbid several times. Now the last time i checked, I found out that the sudden price increase came from the players original owner themselves.
Link: http://i.imgur.com/nStW9cK.png

Now on to my question: Is this intended to be possible? Is it legal/encouraged?
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click on his profile. report him.

that's not allowed.

e: are you sure, that guy was the initial owner?
when the auction is over, that link will show bid leader and owner as the same person.
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Does the Due timer increase instead of decrease? If so then it's a visual bug where the bid winner's name is replaced with the owner one.
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Unfortunately the auction is already over, so I cannot check the timer again.

When I took the screenshot the due time was approximately what I remembered it being the day before (when I made my bid), so it should not have been increasing.

However I dont want to accuse anyone of inappropriate behavior without being able to check wether it really was a bug.

Thank you for your replies though, I will keep it in mind next time I come across something like that :)