"Lost ship" mission - ships get stolen before mission starts

[Endrek]

I took on a "lost ship" type mission where a pilot wanted me to retrieve his abandoned ship, which was supposed to be in Red Light. The difficulty was "Very Easy." I followed the mission guides and it took me all the way out to Ceo's Buckzoid, where I found the ship being piloted by some Teladi. It was pretty clear that the ship had already been taken long before I accepted the mission. This is extremely frustrating; at least ensure that the empty ship is where it's supposed to be when the mission starts.

[Legionnaire]

theres 2 types of lost ship mission, the ones where they are abandoned and then ones where they are stolen and you have to get them back. I'm not sure if they are officially called different things in the mission briefing though

Legionnaire

[Endrek]

All the mission briefing said was that it was lost. I guess I'll just have to be careful in the future.

[BeidAmmikon]

I've also taken 2 such missions and I've turned both ships to fine-grained star dust before the pilots could resign (they didn't want to, even at 1% hull, 0% shields....). I've noticed something in the missions' description like "it goes further as we speak", that is they told me the ships were stolen indeed.