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We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Hi, I will just cut to the chase and let you know my issues

I have been dropshipping from amazon to ebay for a couple years now and made 1000s of new buyer accounts using physical uk giftcards via virtualbox and mobile tethering. 1 or 2 out of 100 may get put on hold due to suspicious activity and this is a number I am OK with.

I was doing this on my macbook but since the ram is only 8gb, I decided to build a custom PC so I can create the vms much faster. I paid someone for this and I now use WIN10 as my host OS. For some reason the new PC does not have a wifi driver so I has to buy a wifi adaptor (USB-AC53 Nano) to connect to my mobile hotspot.

But since using this new PC, it seems 1 or 2 out of every 10 accounts are now getting put on hold due to suspicious activity so my risk has jumped from 1% to 10% :(.

Could anybody tell me any reason why there has been a jump in the risk. Is it the new OS host leaking information to the VMs or maybe the wifi adaptor is casuing it. I cant seem to figure it out and ANY help would be very helpful ?

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Its your giftcards creating the issues

Buyer shops with GCs are just high risk - you'll have a hard time keeping/making shops unless they have AVS

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

hey thanks for the response!
I was using the same GCs before, so do you know why it wasnt an issue before the computer change ?

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Could be that the use of the particular GC in question is just causing high risk situation because of new coding on the backend of AZ - i'm just thinking out loud.

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

New coding? Could you elaborate please

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

If you think about it - a particular line of GCs could get flag as high risk if a sudden spike in bogus activity with them....

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Spoke to virtualisation expert and it seems win10 might be leaking some information so I know have linux mint. NAT network also may lead to some networking fingerprint so will used bridged. Anybody else understand this ???

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Its unlikely your system setup. Most likely the GCs

Just because they worked before doesn't mean they'll work forever

VCCs/GCs gets blacklisted all the time on Amazon, you need more variations

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Why not go back to your MacBook with the same gift cards, if it doesn’t leak then you it’s yours setup. Hopefully you haven’t thrown it away.

Re: We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........
 

Gift cards are very very temperamental on Amazon, I wouldn't even dare to use them.