Your item has sold! Avoiding scams targeting online sellers

This report highlights social-engineering campaigns targeting online marketplace sellers, detailing tactics such as phishing via direct messages and email to harvest payout account data (using percent-encoded redirects and 302 chains to a fake verification portal), pressure to transact off-platform (wire/Zelle/“friends and family”), and shipment-address change requests that void seller protections; it provides practical mitigations—MFA, strict on-platform transactions, link validation, message/sender verification, and avoiding post-order address changes—and notes available detections across Cisco security products.