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1. Create an Etsy account. You’ll first need to set up an Etsy account. The platform makes this relatively easy: Just head to Etsy and click “Sign In” in the top-left corner (This is the ...
Con: Etsy Takes a Cut of Your Earnings. Like most ecommerce sites, Etsy takes a percentage of your earnings for listing and selling products on its platform. On average, Etsy takes a 6.5% cut from ...
The key policy was that “everything listed for sale on Etsy must be handmade, vintage, or a craft supply.” Resellers were prohibited. The new rules are more specific and updated to reflect ...
Get-rich-quick schemes. Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and ...
Creating a shop on Etsy requires creating and posting at least one listing in the shop, which costs $0.20. Each listing will remain on the shop's page for a maximum of 4 months, or until someone buys the product. The prices of products are set by the shop owner, but Etsy claims 6.5% of the final sale price of the listing and 6.5% of the postal fee.
The pop-up instructs the victim to call the scammers via a phone number to fix the "error". Technical support scams can also be initiated via cold calls. These are usually robocalls which claim to be associated with a legitimate third party such as Microsoft or Apple.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
If you think you are a victim of this, or any other online scam please file a report with your local law enforcement agency and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov.