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Week in Review — June 28, 2026
Closing out June with Pride Month wrapped, the 4th of July approaching fast, and wedding season continuing its steady summer run. Patriotic bulk-order scam confirmed circulating, exactly as expected Consistent with Friday’s brief alert, a few sellers reported similar rushed bulk-order attempts this week, right on the seasonal schedule this pattern has followed all year.…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake patriotic-merchandise bulk orders timed to the 4th of July weekend rush, the same bulk-order scam structure we’ve now documented across nearly every seasonal category this year, right on schedule for this one too. The setup This week’s version of the pattern: messages requesting large bulk orders of patriotic-themed items, supposedly for…
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Week in Review — June 14, 2026
One week out from Father’s Day, with Pride Month at its midpoint and wedding season continuing at what appears to be its annual peak. Father’s Day rush scam confirmed circulating, as expected Consistent with Friday’s brief alert, a handful of sellers reported similar rushed-order attempts this week, exactly the familiar pattern we’ve now documented across…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake rush-order requests timed to Father’s Day’s ten-day production ramp, following the same structure we’ve now documented for nearly every hard-deadline holiday this year. The setup This week’s version of the pattern: buyers requesting urgent, expedited custom Father’s Day orders with pressure to ship before payment fully clears, citing the approaching holiday.…
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Week in Review — May 31, 2026
Closing out May with Father’s Day and Pride Month both ahead, and summer wedding season’s peak still building. Father’s Day and Pride Month planning underway Following our coverage this week, sellers report getting Father’s Day listings live with the hobby and humor-driven framing we discussed, while beginning thoughtful Pride Month preparation for shops where it…
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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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Week in Review — May 24, 2026
Graduation season has wrapped, Memorial Day approaches this weekend, and attention is fully shifting toward summer wedding season’s expected peak. Graduation season: a strong, clean close Sellers in relevant categories report a solid final stretch, consistent with the discipline we discussed throughout the month, with the class-gift-fund scam pattern the only real disruption worth noting.…
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Graduation’s Peak Week: Executing the Final Push
Graduation ceremonies aren’t one deadline. Colleges cluster theirs in mid-May, while most high schools run into early-to-mid June, so a shop treating “graduation season” as a single cutoff date is sorting its queue by the wrong clock. Table of Contents Introduction Graduation’s peak week is a compressed, hard-deadline stretch layered on top of a wedding…
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Week in Review — May 17, 2026
Graduation season is now at its genuine peak, with Teacher Appreciation largely wrapped and the familiar bulk-order scam making its expected appearance. Graduation bulk scam confirmed circulating Following Friday’s alert, several additional sellers reported similar rushed class-gift-fund requests this week, consistent with a pattern we anticipated fully given how many times we’ve now seen this…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “class gift fund” bulk requests, a graduation-season variant of the same bulk-order scam structure we’ve now tracked across nearly every major season this year. The setup This week’s version of the pattern, in graduation-relevant categories: messages claiming to represent a school, parent group, or class fund organizing a bulk graduation gift…