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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “summer sale partnership” pitches, a warm-weather variant of the promotional-feature scams we’ve tracked at multiple points this year, adapted to the summer wedding and Father’s Day shopping season now underway. The setup This week’s version of the pattern: unsolicited messages offering inclusion in a supposed “summer gift guide” or “wedding season…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “new year promotion” partnership offers, exploiting the general planning and goal-setting energy of January to pitch a too-good marketing opportunity. The setup Several sellers reported messages this week from accounts offering to include their shop in a “2026 best Etsy shops” roundup, a curated New Year gift guide, or a similar…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake holiday collaboration and gift-guide feature offers, aimed at sellers eager for extra visibility heading into Q4. The setup Several sellers reported messages this week from accounts claiming to run a gift-guide blog, influencer page, or “holiday roundup” feature, offering to include the seller’s shop in exchange for a fee, free product…
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Gift Guide Keywords: Shopping by Recipient, Not Just Product
A large share of holiday shoppers search by who they’re buying for and how much they want to spend before they’ve settled on what they’re buying. A listing tagged only by product type never shows up for that search at all. Table of Contents Introduction Most Etsy sellers tag their own listings the way they…